I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Sachin Tendulkar is in my time the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.

Everybody's got their own fight in different ring.

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.