My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

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.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.