Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

No one but a fool is always right.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds.

Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?

Never despair, keep pushing on!

My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.