It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

After the global financial crisis of 2008, populist uprisings had sprouted across Europe. Putin and his strategists sensed the beginnings of a larger uprising that could upend the Continent and make life uncomfortable for his geostrategic competitors.

I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.