As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

You're making a big mistake if you think that you can beat me.

Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.

Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it.

We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.

If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.

We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.

I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

Being intellectually perfect is a very easy task, but being experiential perfect is the very tough task, needs very much courage and equanimity. - Abhinav Rajput

The wonderful life is lived in love.

By his stripes you are healed.

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

Life is for my own to live my own way.

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.