The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

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.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

To be is to do.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.