The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

Quit thinking and take the plunge. The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.