Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

All men are brothers. Hence war.

Like many supermodels, I won't get out of bed for less than £3000. Unlike many supermodels, I don't get out of bed very often.

Kindness is all we have to give others

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

I can't do everything but I can do something to help somebody. And what I can do I will do. I wish I could do more.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.