Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Much is published, but little printed.

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.

You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'roundWith tombstones in their eyesBut the pusher don't careAh, if you live or if you die

President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.