“Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”

“Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.”

“As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”

“Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.”

“Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.”

“(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.”