My father was all brain and little heart.

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

Take it easy. Live life- one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and worries of the 'future' to the 'present' that we end up complicating things...

Her kiss dissolves the universe. In that moment, I am unmade and then reborn.

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

All governments require enemy governments.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

No man is wise enough by himself.

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?