Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

Like Solzhenitsyn, I shall return, one bright dusk.

Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn!

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission), I'm not ASADA. I'm a football coach trying to coach a game.

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing

Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.