While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

I don't believe books have endings. Not the well written ones anyway...

Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

He wanted her to experience all the glorious cheese of life.

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.