I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'.

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.

I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.

There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.

There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.

The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.

She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.

Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.

Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?

Your choices can only be limited by your mind.

Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250, 000 in Britain.

A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

I am not ready to back away from my views.

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?