Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

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.

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.

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.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.

I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.