I think I pick more winners than losers.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is experience of the world of work. The more that businesses get involved with schools, the better, because businesses sometimes complain that students don't have what they require to succeed in work.

You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?

Its all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.

All good things come to he who waits

I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that huddle jumping up and down, telling guys, 'Hey, get it going. Let's go.' Firing everybody up. So I'm part relaxation therapist and part Red Bull.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

It matters not from what stock we are descended so long as we have virtue; for that alone is true Nobility.

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.'

There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

The game business reinvents itself every five years.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow through.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

A clean house is the sign of a boring person.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream but if it is the other one who is beaten then he constructs a theory.

If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.