People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

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

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.

I believe myself capable of great things.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.