I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

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

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.

Embrace the miracle of the sacred moment.

Make enthusiasm a way of life.Make optimism a way of success.Make gratitude a way of happiness.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.