A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

Eric Idle

Measure three times before you cut once.

Proverb

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai Stevenson, "Time", retort

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Douglas William Jerrold

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Francoise Sagan

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

Francesca Annis

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Hilaire Belloc

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mandela

You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.

Woodrow Wilson

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon