The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I call architecture frozen music.