I admire my father greatly.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

To me faith means not worrying.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.