The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation and help us resist irrational shifts in the market.

We can't speak day after day about globalization without at the same time having in mind that...we need multilateral solutions.

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

I definitely believe in marriage.

Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me."

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.