There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

A sincere praise to God makes soul prospers.

Don’t be worried about the future. Live this moment so totally that the next moment comes out of it golden.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

[Niccolò] Machiavelli said it's better to be feared than to be loved.

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

I think it doesn't matter where you're from, we all need a bit of romance.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.