You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

Referees are only human, I think.

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice, and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.