I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.

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

You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.

everything happens for a reason.

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

No, no - I think about thinking

All would live long, but none would be old.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.