Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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 war on drugs thrives on ignorance of drugs and misplaced faith in the power of the law to regulate human vice.

I wanted to beat the heck out of the JV guys for that, except I wouldn't know what to do in a fistfight without a manual.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.