Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Princess of Wales Diana

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

J. Paul Getty

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Laura Bush

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Dale Turner

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Roger Bacon

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Judy Collins

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Anne Lamott

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

George Bernard Shaw

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

W. Somerset Maugham

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Stephen King

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

Daley Thompson