Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time!

There’s an empty seat next to me in the ‘intensely aggravating’ section…and it’s got your name on it

You cannot con an honest man.

One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmineof leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realizedthat there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

The human is the only guilty animal.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

I am a huge believer in social media.