the more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone’s lifetime.

I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

There is only one secret. To love what you are doing.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.