In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.