For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.

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.

It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.

I'm suggesting that principles meant to deal with uncertainty that occurs naturally can be useful to manage the uncertainty that characterizes any new idea.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!