In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.
I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen was keeping. "Which one?" she is reported to have replied with her typically razor-sharp wit. "My sister, my mother or my husband?
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
Disobedience is my joy!
I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either.
[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea. ' You know, we eat - the others watch.
And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
I was an altar boy as a kid. And the answer is no.
Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.