"Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained."

“Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.”

“When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.”

Source : Frans Johansson (2006). “The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation”, p.2, Harvard Business Press

“Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.”

Source : Alfred Marshall, Peter Groenewegen (1997). “Collected works”

“The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.”

“The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.”

“If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there.”

“I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.”