“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.

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.

Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.