I'd rather be respected than loved.

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.

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

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.

Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless.

The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

Storytelling is the important thing.