I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

The only continent with a growth rate lower than Europe is Antarctica.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

You should embrace who you are, and make the best person that you can be, not what somebody else wants you to be.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.