I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.

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

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger!!

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.

i will forever be collidingwith a billion unnamedundiscovered stars, each of uson our own orbital paths.

When you understand that faith is God’s muscle at your disposal, moving mountains doesn’t seem so extraordinary.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station