My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

Gail Porter

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage

Source Unknown

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Lou Gerstner

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

Hilaire Belloc

Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength Whether in oxen or in men, we dull The edges of our ploughshares, and in return Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed, And so today the farmer shakes his head, More and more often sighing that his work, The labour of his hands, has come to naught.

Lucretius, The Way Things Are, B

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Anita Brookner

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jackie Kennedy

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.

William Shakespeare

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Jodi Picoult

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

C.S. Lewis

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye!

Caroline Norton