Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.

I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.