In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You’re going to find people who get money that they shouldn’t get.
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted – stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don’t actually know what we actually know.
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
I hadn’t realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh’s achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population.
There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.
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