In reality, relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude, 'How can I help you?' 'How can I enrich your life?' 'How can I be a better husband to you,' if it's a marriage.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

To be prepared is half the victory.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

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.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

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.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.