life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.

So many worlds so much to do So little done such things to be.

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.