The notion that love is abroad in the world has shaped my life.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

Christ, woman, were you ever going to say anything?”He grabbed her by the wrist and tugged her down the hall tothe single bathroom. “Get out of that shirt.

Humans are pretty complicated, ” I said. “No, Boy. Rain-forest ecosystems are complicated. Humans are just a mess.

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.