Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.