How you do money is how you do life.

It takes a great reader to make a great book.

If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.

You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.

Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.

It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.

The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have.

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it