My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

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

Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

What you need is an idea.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Beneficence is a duty.

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'