German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

I hope you remember that you always have a place to hide, away from the noise of the world, away from all that dares to wound your heart. You can always hide within the merciful heart of God.

at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

I got two stools, in case I want to sit down and sit down again on something else.