Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

The dream was on hold. It wasn't dead.

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My country, right or wrong, ” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.