The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.

G. Emmons

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

Jennifer Lopez

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

Thom Yorke

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Johnny Bench

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

P. D. James

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Samuel Johnson

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Iain Duncan Smith

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Walt Whitman

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

Neil Kurshan

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Andy Roddick

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

Ian Botham