I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

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.

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

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.

Winners have to absorb losses.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience