Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.

(Milosevic's passing) should not keep us from our efforts to provide peace and stability in the Balkans; on the contrary, it should renew them.

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours.

At my place I can really tell when winter has come.. It's when sunlight is pathetically crawling in my courtyard, incapable of reaching my window anymore.

After rain comes fair weather.

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

You like? You are happy? Yes? Okay, go! Go in the street.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.