The so-called ‘information age’ has given us a surplus of information and a deficit of meaning.

Success comes when preparation meets opportunity.

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.