For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

Defining what success means to you requires important meetings – board meetings with yourself. When the “me, myself and I” committee meets and passes transformational resolutions.

We need God’s great-grace in all spheres of life.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

Nobody gives a rat's nipple about me.

Give your best to the challenges. And what you get will be even better.

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.

I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.