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'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.

Till I loved I never lived.

For hearts gone by in times past, unassuming, with not even a glance. In another lifetime, perhaps

O hell! to choose love by another's eye.

Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

People are Gods masterpieces, created for the purposes that God has already mapped out.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

I love cheeseburgers and chocolate - milk, not dark, and hot chocolate with marshmallows in the winter!