Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have..

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before..

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out..

I do like to be surprised..

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things..

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is..

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop..

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good..

I grill, therefore I am..

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you..

I have a family to feed..

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more..

To do or not to do... that is the question..

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh..

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God..

But as you say in English, c'est la vie!.

The public be damned..

Strength is for service, not status.

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life..