Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department..

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous..

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly….

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers..

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obl….

The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a….

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit….

We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do ….

Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I wa….

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety..

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day..

Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and ….

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling gracef….

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value..

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's th….

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever belie….

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury..

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages..

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupt….

It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or ….

Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who h….