Angela Merkel

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

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

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

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

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

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.