To expect punishment is to suffer it

Closeout games are actually kind of easy.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

There's not a damn thing that I do on my own that's not for my fans or for people that have supported me. So, I don't really care about my agenda, I wanna be on yours.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.