"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer"

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark"

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"

"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away"

"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them"

"The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years"

"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music"

"Feathers predate birds"

"A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?"

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven"

"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing"