The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive.

I suppose you’re young, ’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks

Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!

Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition.

You must know what to do with your time if you must become great in this life. You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

If you have inner peace, you can create peace everywhere.

The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought

Only those who never stand up, never fall down.

Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.