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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

There's always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.