High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage administrative ability and their political prescience.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

As a father you immediately become uncool especially the older they get. The older you get it's inevitable that as cool as you think you are you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.