I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to have an injury-free season and doing things for Lancashire to get us where we belong.

I've been a loyal person all my life and I'd like to finish my career here

I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Great men's value increases with age.

The folly of the wise is better than the wisdom of fools.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

Today, life will offer me many lessons. I will learn nothing.

The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.

The summer of 1966, I hitch-hiked alone for two months all over Europe instead of working on a farm in Spain. It was a big game to see how much I could see on $400. This got me hooked on traveling.

The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.