"It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can."

“Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.”

Source : "The Charitable-Industrial Complex" by Peter Buffett, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2013.

“My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“I don`t know how it would have gone, but I do know this - Mitt Romney was looking at running and the reason he decided not to run was because he decided that someone was unbeatable. That someone was Jeb Bush.”

“The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.”

“To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.”

“He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.”

“Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”

“Of all animals, the outward form of the Lion is the most striking ; his look is bold and confident; his gait proud; and his voice terrible ; and from his great strength and agility, is usually styled the king of beasts.”