My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

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

A true leader leads by empowering not by enslaving.

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

The game taught me the game.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

If you want to be a rich person... don't let the poor person inside of you do your talking.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.