Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.