I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

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

Sometimes it's good to start over

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times.

Character teaches above our wills.