"I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him."

“If I don't go to the gym and work out, I look like a bag of bones. I go three times a week usually and it's nearly all weights work to help with definition.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!”

“I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.”

Source : "The Last Word". Book by Thomas Nagel, 1997.

“Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.”

“If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.”

“At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.”

“Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.”

“As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.”

Source : Jonathan Weiner (1991). “The next one hundred years: shaping the fate of our living earth”, Bantam