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.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

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.

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

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

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do.

Any woman I know can smell a boyfriend a mile away. Women are intuitive, they know when a guy is interested but he’s not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y way.

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.