Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.

Why did I sign up for this?''Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.

Before there was an Internet, before there was an AOL, the circulation of newspapers was going down.

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.

I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.