I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

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.

We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.

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.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.