"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

"Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear."

"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."

"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together."

"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses."

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."