Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

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.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and collaboration, or haunted by the choices, evasions and moral ambiguities that only a defeated and occupied country can feel.