Worry... is rust upon the blade.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap

The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown

Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself

Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.

You can try to dirty my name, but I'll wear your hate like war paint.

Perspective is an incredibly powerful tool. It tempers how we receive information, and guides what we choose do with it.

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

"Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

I get mail; therefore I am.