“We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.”

For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn’t done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success.

As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

I’ve always been hopeful about Scotland’s prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.