Henry Bessemer

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.