I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.

As a minister, I would rather be criticized for thoroughly weighing the options, and sometimes even voicing my doubts, than to be reproached for recklessly sending German soldiers into combat.

As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions.

Military missions are not democratic development aid.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

There were at least four contexts in which San shamans acquired insights into the spiritual world: – the trance dance, – special curing rituals, – viewing rock art, and – dreams.

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in Him -barely- as long as He let me sleep in on Sundays.

We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.

I hate getting off the elevator on the wrong floor? Anyone ever do that... and then you have to turn around and face those people. I feel like I owe everyone in there an explanation.

As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

Your thoughts become things!

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.