Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

John HarveyJones

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

C.S. Lewis

The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.

Simon Mainwaring

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

William Shakespeare

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I knew a girl that was so ugly that... They use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

Rodney Dangerfield

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. He told me to wear a brown necktie.

Rodney Dangerfield

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but we're here, we're alive, we're the human race, we have survived wars and terrorism and scarcity and global famine, and we have made it back from the brink, not once but many times. History is not a suicide note - it's a record of our survival.

Jeanette Winterson

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

George Bernard Shaw

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Eric Hoffer