If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

Success teaches us nothing only failure teaches.

We dance to rekindle the soul.

What is the past but what we choose to remember?

May you live all the days of your life.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

What you eat should not just be "good for you" but it should contribute to your happiness; it should make you a happier person.