The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

Your feelings are your god.

David Ogilvy made his copywriters come up 100 different headlines for every ad they wrote.

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!

[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.