Marcus Aurelius

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.