Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies.

Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.

Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster...

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.

Experience by itself is not science.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.