I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.

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

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one set for everyone else. I never would have imagined it could be so glaring.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.