Business is no more about making money than the human body is about making blood. Yes you need to make the stuff, but only to serve your higher aims.

Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend.

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.

For some, I realize, business is the all-out pursuit of profits, period, full stop, but for us business was no more about making money than being human is about making blood.

The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

Alarm clocks, I felt, were nothing more than a plague rained down by an evil force, possibly even Lucifer himself.

Has it tortured you as much as it's tortured me?" He asked. "Don't call it torture when it's self-inflicted. You always have a choice.

No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.