Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend.

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under

How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?

Because of the collapsing economy of America, it is nearly a mathematical certainty that this ship will soon flounder.

I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

The woman who steals your boyfriend has the ugliest shoes on earth. Truly hideous. You wouldn't be caught dead in them.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.

be careful what you want, for you will get it.