The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

Life is neither a feast nor a fun. But a fast.

Golden Arches' are the gateway to the afterlife.

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it.

There is no any secret to being a genius, all you have to do is be yourself.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.