Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.

You don't listen to the equipment, you listen through the equipment.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.

Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.