Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed.

but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him

I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

God seeks us as eagerly as we seek God.

Even the idiot may have a message for us

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.