The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die."Kate to Will

... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.

Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change.

Arrogance is the last thing to die

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.