It's a perfect day here in Australia, glorious blue sunshine

If a martian were to land on earth now and be told that the best batsman in the world was playing in this match, he would think it was Rahul Dravid and not Sachin Tendulkar.

Success is more like a character than financial status

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

Our issue isn't when we get something done, ... it's how appropriate it is when we do it.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever it's called. And that's only when I'm having an off day.