As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.

And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.

I do not love fiction, I love history.

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

Ireland is not in a good place at the moment. We have our own humiliation of losing our economic sovereignty, and we're now regaining it slowly and painfully.

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.