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

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.

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

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

When life gives you lemons, the best thing to do is make orange juice and let the rest of the world stand back and wonder how you did it." -Unknown

Watching soccer just makes me wish I was watching Foosball.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

I wanted to fight to get into the front. I was just hungry to do it.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.