Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centred.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.