“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”

…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?

You must render: never report.

Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.

The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Love always has its price, come whence it may.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

What captains want is players who move well in the field.

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn’t possible.

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

I resigned from captaincy because I wanted the new captain to get enough time for preparing a team before the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

As a skipper, when you try to manipulate the field, you need to see the strengths of the fast bowlers.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.