Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.

People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.

To be magnificent, attract beauty like a magnet.

God urges us to bring our concerns to Him—not just petitions about our own needs, but also intercessions for others. [The apostle] Paul said . . . “Brothers, pray for us” [1 Thessalonians 5:25 NIV].

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.

Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.

Dreams are there to be realized, not to be dreamed. To realize a dream, you have to stay steadfast in your strong will.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

I can't think without my glasses.