"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."

"Know or listen to those who know."

"If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation."

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."