Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

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 bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.

She would have given up every Gathering from now until she went to join StarClan, if only she could have been sure that her sister was safe.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.

When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it’s a destiny moment, don’t wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is asking you to do now.

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

We never do great things without trying.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.