The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself I have failed three times and what happens when he says I am a failure.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

When you grow up in a family of languages you develop a kind of casual fluency so that languages though differently colored all seem transparent to experience.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News ' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.