I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Marriage is not about the Numbers but the Members

Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the good times roll in your existence!

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."

You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do.