Crises are challenges, not calamities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

Humans are able to give very good feedback. You can't tell with an animal what they feel.

I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love.