"It would have ben splendid...if the wine was as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish and the maid as willing as the duchess" Winston Churchill when asked about dinner

If you cannot explain it to a six year old then you don't understand it yourself!

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour

If you have a garden and a library, then you will have everything you need

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem

A critic is a man who knows the way but cannot drive the car

The first 40 years of life give us the text and the next 30 supply the commentary

A good decision is based on knowledge not on numbers.

A pilot once said "I would rather be on the tarmac wishing we were in the air than in the air wishing we were on the tarmac".