Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

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 light overcome the darkness.

The Saviour of the light liberates soul into the light.

Little tube of mighty pow'r Charmer of an idle hour Object of my warm desire.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

It was his own grief turned magically to song.

Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.