No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldnt want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent. – Margaret Thatcher
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous – not just to some people in some circumstances – but to everyone all the time. – Thomas J. Watson
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. In age, we put out another sort of perspiration,—gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), “Fate,” The Conduct of Life
Its no good being nice and young and naive. Theres no good in that at all. Youve got to do it all yourself, and youve gotta learn quick. And you cant look for sympathy either. – Johnny Rotten
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt