I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

Mistakes are proof that you're trying

Faith in God, reverence of a Creator!

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them.

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

I can't believe anyone can have played the game of football as well as Messi.

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.