I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.

Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough.

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

The deadlift also serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons.

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!