The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Yeah, I said the universe. Call it Fate or The Force or whatever you want. Everything is everything. It's all part of one big system. I like to think of it as the universe.

Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

Developing low carbon sources of energy supply will enhance our energy security

Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.