Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

Luck is not real, it a simple word .

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre - Sans commencer la guerre)

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

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My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, .... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH.