God puts pack rats together with non-pack rats.
So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.
You don't have a choice about fashion or aesthetics - you're in it, whether you like it or not.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
