Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Roselle Mercier Montgomery

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

Jeremy Northam

A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

Victor Hugo

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

Bobby Scott

[possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942]

George Orwell

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

Vince Cable

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Albert Camus

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life

Jane Austen

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Anita Brookner