Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.

We ought to give each other, a chance to change.

Avoid impious people, run from fools, seek out the wise.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.