There is no such thing as a wrong decision, just make another decision.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are made, not found, and the activity of making of them changes with both the destination and the maker

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

The old dead trees are the most fascinating – the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they’ll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.

How else could she (Elsa, the lion) know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature – to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride – her real pride?

I was certain that if you offer a child the widest possible range of food from the earliest age in a loving environment, if you eat together as often as possible, and demonstrate your own enjoyment of flavour and texture and conviviality, that child will eat well forever, and will enjoy being with others around a table for the rest of his or her life. After all, that is the lesson of my own life.

It was my dream one day I come to Australia, The dream is gone, now it is real. Now I ask what I can do for Australia.

It’s not where you live-but how you live.

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.