The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

To believe in what you don’t know is as true as to believe in what you do know as long as life is an illusion.

We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.

Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.

I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

I might add, the whites who came here only say 50 years ago as immigrants have come into this country, they have set up businesses. They've developed these businesses into an industry.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.