I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

George Eliot

I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.

Nicole Appleton

Speak comfortable words!

William Shakespeare

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

Raymond Holliwell

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

Anthony Trollope

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

Chaim Potok

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.

Anthony Holden

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Francis Picabia

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Christopher Reeve

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.

Michael P. Anderson