The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping

Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.

Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.