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.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
Honor lies in honest toil.