Born on May 24th

"I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline."

"If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see."

"I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes."

"In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance."

"Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally."

"Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society."

"No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance."

"In the field of resilience & focus, we are not defined by the weight of our struggles, but by the strength we find when we rise."

"Like a lighthouse in the storm, your inner resolve must remain steady and bright. As a historical figure, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The hardest trials do not consume the gold; they refine the spirit and clear the path ahead."

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

"Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door."

"David Lynch helped me be cool."

"'Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark."

"'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting."

"I'm not big on remakes."

"I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing."

"I have a strong affinity for animals."

"I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge."

"I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family."

"People take things so seriously."

"I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good."

"'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people."

"I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work."

"'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto."

"In the field of creativity & art, to create is to take a leap of faith into the quiet canvas of your own imagination."

"Art is the expression of our deepest questions, painted in colors that words cannot reach. As a scientist & scholar, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Every act of creation begins with a willing heart and the courage to make a mistake."