We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened.

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.

I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees.

How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t?” “Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations, ” Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees.

Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty.

If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it.

Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will, " or "I will not, " and mean it?

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

Where the terror is, you must go.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

She was poison in a pretty bottle.

Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.