Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.

If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz

When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape against the jagged pieces. I would not be cut today.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.