The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

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.

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

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.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

I don't want to make a depressing movie. I want it to allow us to ask some questions and stay asking those questions. How predetermined are our lives? It's something I don't have the answer to.

The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.

Knowledge is only potential power.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.

It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!