The world [is] now seeing might is right.

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

Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you.

I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.