"Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision."

“No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.”

Source : Jacqueline Woodson (2009). “Peace, Locomotion”, p.19, Penguin

“Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.”

Source : "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

“My reputation is a media creation.”

“Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.”

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”

Source : Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

“Abstinence is approved of God.”

“I paint abstract expressions.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.”