Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Be that self which one truly is.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.