It is an awful thing to say, but if I was a Rover worker I would not be pinning my hopes on a deal by next Monday, I'd be looking for a new job.

If someone says, 'No, no, no, the earth is round!', they think this person is an extremist. That's what it's like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC.

Your voice is the sweetest music and the sound of your smile is the ecstasy of my life.

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.