On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

Beauty lies in the eye.

Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse.

Many have came before you and many will come after you, but none will ever be you. Some may even try to duplicate your characteristics, but they'll never succeed because you are unique.

Life’s easy.It’s living it that’s difficult.

No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

I definitely have a rock star lifestyle.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.