"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '&pound10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia."

"It is a essential truth that a leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew."

"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries."

"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the silence between the notes creates the music."