Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

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.

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

I'm not a great one for looking back.

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

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.

Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing.

Conductors are performers.

Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance simply do your best.

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

Rhymes are dynamic, voice is titanic, gigantic, suckers get frantic, and then panic. A smooth talker, ˜cause I'm a Queens New Yorker, My rhymes bring more Good Times than Jimmie Walker.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.

Delay in justice is injustice.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.

I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.