What can you do in order to save your own banks?

As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Artists, like criminals, are dependent on a jury.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

I am at one with my duality.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

To Educate is to Free.

Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.