I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

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

The gratitude that you feel leads to faith in the abundance and with every resonance that radiates from your mind more strong feelings of faith start to reside in you.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

You are arrogant, " says the cat, "and you are in love. Either one of these things alone might be overcome, but together, they make for a stubborn combination.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor and this I know that where law ends there tyranny begins.

I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.