Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman.

I am not a supporter of buying a national team.

It's the sum of many parts which grow to be something great.

All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Nothing in the world is like this-a bright white page withpale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencilthe soft hush of itmoving finallyone dayinto letters.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.

And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation.

Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.