Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen, " he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best.

Encouragement gives strength to every soul.

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.