Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

You are one of the forces of nature.

The way to gain a friend is to be one

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

How often must I get lost in a strange land of fairytales so that I can find my true self?

Don't be humble. You're not that great.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

We have our ambitions [in Dortmund Borussia], and of course I would love to win some titles after some years of finishing second or losing finals.

I want to help people to not feel alone, like I feel and have felt for so long. Everybody's just trying their best. I guess I'm like an anti-star.

I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.