This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Oscove?" Valek paused. "He didn't have the stomach for it.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

She's been on more laps than a napkin.