A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

In 2004, we had a great year, with Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Alistair Cook. Some groups are not quite as strong.

Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.

For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.

Valuing other people's time starts with valuing your own.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.