You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

I have to build a new environment for the people. I will place them in ecozones and provide them assistance. I will build hospitals there. There will be economic activity.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and...

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

When Indian economy was growing at the rate of 8 to 9 percent, I think everybody was quite happy. Even when there were defects in our policies, they were overlooked, and when the economy slows down,...

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and its further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems,...

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

And you yourself always be seated at the middle of the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the...

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

I love to go to Acapulco with my family.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee - working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops...

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and...

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

When I was the finance minister, I got on well with the RBI Governor.

The state is going to be present where it has to be for every Argentine, especially for the neediest of us.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

There must be protection of the external borders.

One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the...