Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.