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

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.

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

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

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.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.