The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Thomas J. Peters

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Ogden Nash

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Jodi Picoult

I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.

Kim Clijsters

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

Harold MacMillan

Think then act safely.

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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Winston Churchill

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

Brian Baird

The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.

Tony Parsons

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He IS, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy.

Stephen King