They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.

And when you fall, because you always do fall. When you swim for the beach to catch your board. There’s peace to be found in the shoreward pull with every passing wave.

To hold power in this world is to know things that others do not want to know.

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire.

Show kindness and respect to everyone. Pure intentions make the biggest difference.

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.