“You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

I’m trying to get across the message that don’t be afraid of animals, they’re just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

I really think I like poisonous snakes.

There is someone special in my life right now, and I’m really happy with that, life is wonderful at the moment.

Every time you lose an animal, it’s like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

If there’s one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy’s reserve.

I feel like I’m nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.

self-pity is better than none.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.