When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart.

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

It is beautiful to own your own destiny and be able to do what you feel in your heart. To have that and not do it? THAT is crazy to me.

Life and art are not two different things.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.