Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.

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

The privilege of the grave: Its occupant has one privilege which is not exercised by any living person: free speech.

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

Stop Learning and start thinking.

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.