We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Boston and shut it, Terrance.” And then I hung up on him.

Talk to yourself the way you'd talk to someone you love. Shush your inner bully. Be your own bestie.

Gratitude will make you feel great, choose to be grateful.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

I've never laughed a woman into bed, but I've laughed one out of bed many times.

Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

I'm usually up at 6 A.M., even on the weekend.