The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

Money isn't everything. I've got money and I've got everything, and they're not the same.

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem.

Money you haven't earned is not good for you.

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.

I think anonymity on the internet has to go away.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.