Life taught me that even in the darkest moments, there is always a light.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.

Innovation in quarrying isn't just about new technology - it's about new thinking.

"A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader, across time and space."

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.