That my first play, Red Velvet, took so many years to be done. It took me seven years to write and then five years to get to the stage.

I don't go in for disappointment.

The failure of my party to make the big political breakthrough it deserves.

Not having a 32-inch waist for most of my adult life.

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Well yes, but like I said, small mistakes or small failures. We take small failures very often. We have failures in investment. We have failures in operation, but no big mistakes or big failures. How do we take that? Like ordinary business.

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

The first thing to recommend is that they don’t work in some place that they don’t like, that they don’t do things that they don’t like. That they look for what they really want to do and what kind of thing they want to be involved in, or if they want to go it alone by themselves, to find that.

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.