The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.

When the time is yours, the future is waiting, The person you become, and the people you're creating.

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

The extreme always makes an impression.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

I don't think there's a day that goes by that I don't feel like I've had enough and there's nothing left, but desire means...never quit.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Your best posture is your next posture.

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.