I always try to push myself to the limit, to see how far I can go.

The key to global competitiveness is local adaptability.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.