Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Les Brown

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Robert Graves

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Lee Iacocca

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.

John C. Granville

Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves that to live with her.

Andre Maurois

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Octavia Butler

Life too near paralyses art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

Christiane Amanpour

Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

Hu Jintao