For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it’s a religion.
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only...
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.
Never seek the wind in the field—it is useless to try and find what is gone. Your
Fortune favours the brave
The English and the Americans were divided by a common language.
Some clever children don’t discover how bright they are until after they’ve left school,’ continued Mr Holcombe, ‘and then spend the rest of their lives regretting the wasted years.
Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent.
I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking
No, Mr Redmayne, not my tears. Although I've read that letter every day for the past eight months, those tears were not shed by me, but by the man who wrote them. He knew how much I loved him. We woul...
We all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.
In any conversation, it's often something that seems quite insignificant at the time that gives you the piece of information you're looking for.
He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.
You take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
The grandmothers decided on William’s eighth birthday that the time had come for the boy to learn the value of money. With this in mind, they allocated him one dollar a week as pocket money, but insis...
Sometimes it’s an advantage to be disadvantaged,
Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.
Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.