Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought.

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.