Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

Strange how potent cheap music is.

What you want in life is possible to achieve. Find the courage and begin the work

GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.

Don't work out, work in.

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

I want to be in Star Wars. That would be amazing.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.