"Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on."

“The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.”

“If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.”

Source : "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

“You are allowed to do this - don't worry about the rules, don't worry about getting into trouble, your job is to take care of the customer. Your job is to make the person leave happy.”

Source : "John Pepper of Boloco: Acting On The Customer’s Voice". Interview with Brent Leary, smallbiztrends.com. December 15, 2015.

“A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.”

“It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.”

Source : "Christopher Gorham of Covert Affairs: Overcoming Failure and Having Kids". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.”

“There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.”

“Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.”