I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history.

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

I've been blessed with an amazing group of guys in my first year, I can't believe how lucky I am.