To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

Chase your dreams .... but make sure you don't find shortcuts.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

It is important to understand that if you do fall, it's important for you to get right back up again.

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

I just want a life that's full of up-leveled joy. And I'm ready to meet a nice man! Put that out there, too.

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.