I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

You are your own vehicular machinery that ought to propel yourself under guidance of the compass of the Holy Spirit of God. Don't go off the track!

People feared what they did not understand, and they without a doubt did not understand her. Those who believed they did least of all. She was something new.

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

If heat rises, then heaven must be hotter than hell

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.