Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.

Adam Smith

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

John Muir

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

G. K. Chesterton

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Mo Rocca

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

George Jessel

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

David Grayson

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Les Brown

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

David Millar

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

Robert Stack