I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

Find yourself!!!You will find God...

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

Whenever I go someplace I always buy something, collect something, to help me remember the trip. So I guess I collect mementos from my many travels.