People are fools, not monsters

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

I can't look at everything hard enough!

Marriage is sleeping together in a bed a little too narrow.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.