Angela Merkel

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.