In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

Power wears out those who don't have it

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

You may be wrong at first

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

The goal in life is to live young, have fun, and arrive at your final destination as late as possible, with a smile on your face.

They'll have to bring in Mulder an' Scully, because there ain't no CSI on the planet that'll ever be able to explain this.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.