My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.