It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.