The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

God gives a new grace for every new quest.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindrance, in turn, he deduces the proof that he is alive.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.

There is no doing in the world without being first.

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.