There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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.

Aim high to achieve excellence. Be determined to succeed. Use self-discipline to achieve golden excellence.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

Stress is not about carrying the burden yourself but, failure to set your priorities straight”.

If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember