I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

I am not a titleholder

The ferocity of her passion was what he'd been waiting for night after torturous night. He wanted her to hunger the way he hungered. To need like he needed.

You are your partner are on the same side - it's the side of the living.

People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

Live... More than your neighbors. Unleash yourself upon the world and go places. Go now. Giggle no,laugh.

Sunday doesn't just prepare us for the week ahead - it prepares us for eternity.

Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry