It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.

Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.

In the end, we are all alone, and we must face the consequences of our actions by ourselves.