Running from your problems is a race you'll never win.
I think I pick more winners than losers.
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
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.
Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first. . . In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?
Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.
I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to. . . go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children. ' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.