Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her.

Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!

She poured her heart into the song and filled it with everything she felt

Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.

I'm still experimenting.