I could see myself in the fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, with the Kangol hats like Slick Rick and Dana Dane. But I could also see myself in a leather Troop suit like LL Cool J.

Dealing with one who feels smarter than you, let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

The same water that will kill you, drown you, give you hypothermia is the same water that will help you survive.

I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.

Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.