What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.
I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.
If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.
There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters. . . . Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear. . . . None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of.
We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.