Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

Honesty's the best policy.

What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.

The question I ask myself like almost everyday is 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'

Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.

I'm not in the big leagues just because I'm cute.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.