A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

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

Hope means hang on.

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

It's always good to give yourself the advantage.

For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.

Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.

If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.

A light heart is a magnet for all that you love