"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed."

"I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived."

"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."

"Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is."

"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."

"What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads."

"First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money."

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."