Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.