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

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Faith walks simply childlike between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.