Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

I prefer little hotpant-like shorts, but I wear thongs too.

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.

We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself.

The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.