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.

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.

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

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.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi, " Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

Then she sighed. Just the faintest, softest release of breath. The sound swept through his chest like a hurricane, with the force to topple trees.

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.

The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!

Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

If all you do is follow the herd, you'll just be stepping in poop all day