I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system.

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

First and deadliest of all is a founder's unwavering belief that he or she understands who the customers will be, what they need, and how to sell it to them.

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Love yourself first, because that’s who you’ll be spending the rest of your life with.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Don't wait for a time when you're free of fear. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, the further night was chased back, until a great and radiant being resumed its throne in the sky.

We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it's in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.

The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.

By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Heart flow means listening to your intuition and hunches and following your heart. How can you let your heart lead today

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

'Stimela' is the very first video I directed. I wanted it to be an emotional visual art piece, displaying humans as free, powerful animals. We are all running from something or searching for something; our instincts have been ignored.

Nothing that I say in my music is a lie.

I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.

When people watch football, they're looking for fun things.

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.