To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Discipline leads us to freedom and freedom leads us to fulfillment.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

I'm usually in jammies and slippers by 8 P.M.

The CMO is expected to spend more on technology than the CIO by 2017.

Through helping one another, you can often eliminate the prefix 'im' from the word impossible!

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.