The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.