If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

Truth.It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

Buddha had said:"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

I am neither sad nor cheerful

Sow the help of God into your daily battles, and reap a harvest of victory.

I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great!

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.