I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

The best place to look at failure is in the rear-view mirror.

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.