...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

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

One did not fully exist without the other.

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.