Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

a push up or two . . . or twenty.

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

People change all the time whether you like it or not.