The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

Its very difficult to happy everyone.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.

Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.