The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto

My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.

When you become a happier human being as a result of letting go of certain people or things, that's the universe's way of letting you know it was the right choice.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.

Women are still second-class citizens.

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

I would love to study cultures and people.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.