The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

We need a greening of globalisation.

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up.

Love awakens the divinity of the soul.

Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.

A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.