All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Hey! I don't have to put up with this! I'm rich!

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

There's a step that leaders need to take; they've got to understand themselves.

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.