We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

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

The only limitations you have are those limitations you accept.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Love can make us do dreadful things.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

The limitations are limitless.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.