I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.
Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.
Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on.
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.
Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.