I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Give up trying to make me give up

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.