I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

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

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...

Your suffering is here to help you unfold and to awaken into compassion, love and strength.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20 years. They will almost certainly go up.

Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

I like to keep my face "pretty" because then I won't be like oh my god, what are you doing here?

People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.