I knew if I bowl to my strengths, I will make an impact.

I try to keep things simple. Reading and analysing the wicket as soon as possible is important. Sometimes you run after wickets, but I focus on team goals - what the team wants me to do right now.

Dot balls help build pressure, so even if you are not getting wickets, somebody from the other end is getting wickets, and the job is done.

It's always good when you got competition in the team.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.