Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

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

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

Life is fleeting, and the wonder can be lost within the confusion of worldly reality.

My friend Annabel calls it "Reverse Perfectionism" - if a man thinks he can't do something perfectly, he'd rather not do it at all…

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

God gave us family so that when we have a hard time praying for ourselves, we have others who will pray for us.

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.