"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents."

"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."

"It is a radiant truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience."

"So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better."