When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!