I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

My best feature is my hair.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

The goal of becoming more consistent with your core authentic self is a much stronger motivator than "I need to lose 30 pounds."

Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.

No libraries, no progress.