By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

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?

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

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.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

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