The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment

It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.

Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.

Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches.

This is the final book about Brian

To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn.

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?