Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Once you label me you negate me.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.