The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

When I started my last business I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes they go through one stage of relaxation after another and every stage releases tension.

Every three days on average I am alone on stage facing the public.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century are now selling more oil than they find and are thus in the throes of liquidation.