The thing we need most is each other.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine.

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

I mean, I’m quite happy. I’m happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

I think it's an obligation to make a movie full, so you have to see it twice to get all the moments.