(Milosevic's passing) should not keep us from our efforts to provide peace and stability in the Balkans; on the contrary, it should renew them.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.

Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his concern, unwomanly, a deeper injury to his own abandoned assumptions than any he had contemplated.

Knowledge does not equate to intelligence. It is the application of knowledge that separates the genius from the fool.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man.