"You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements."

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

"When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours."

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

"I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point."