Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

That which concerns everyone must also be discussed and approved by everyone.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation

Judge a man by what he tried, not by what he accomplished.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.