If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

To Conquer The Lust For Power Is To Establish A Society A Society That Reflects Heaven On Earth

Y are you called the cheese man?

I do Pilates because it's important for me to have a healthy back when I'm 70 so I'm not hunched over and in pain. That's more important to me than being thin.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

I think one of the big problems we have got - and police tell me this - is most police don't know how to deal with mental health problems. And so we need better mental health response.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.