Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

Disarmament requires trust.

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.