True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

The courteous driver keeps a safe distance between cars and doesn't drive like one plane trying to refuel another.

Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.

Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid.

There are only two most powerful situations- being so small that you have nothing to lose and being so big that you don't care what you lose!

‎Reconciliation‬ is the most significant level of life's maturity!

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?

It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.

[Tony Richardson ] just liked me, knew I was going to be what he wanted [in The Hotel New Hampshire], and that was the end of it. It was unbelievable.