Quotes

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'

If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I'm creating my own demise.

My grandmother and my mother raised me, but my dad made a conscious effort to be in my life - every weekend he would take me out.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.

Take anything seriously in life, and you set yourself up for peril - trust me.

I don't know if, in a previous life, I was, like, the embodiment of a guitar, because any time someone plays a guitar with the licks, I just resonate to it.

It does feel that TS5 gave me such a new lease of life.

I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.

There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.

The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.