With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.
I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.
I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.
Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.
Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.
No matter what we face, put your total faith in God, and in time - not our time, but His time - He'll bring us through.
Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear.
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.
Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.
