They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.

But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.

As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists....

He’d stared into her eyes, dark with confusion and unwilling passion, and for one stark, horrible instant, he’d wished to be that different man. He’d wished to be worthy of her.

So much to love, so much to do.So much to care just for you.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.