Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

Consciousness is everywhere, let it fill you up.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

The Eucharist bathes the tormented soul in light and love. Then the soul appreciates these words, 'Come all you who are sick, I will restore your health.'

Nature is our greatest teacher.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

Like many things, I am nothing.

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.