Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.