I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

Were all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists havent been caught yet.

I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Love when it comes, its easy. But when it leaves, its like dying.

What great changes have not been ambitious?

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.