The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.
In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.
It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.
This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later.
Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.
If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.
In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill heritshis promise. " Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years on, others begin to realize that, really, something extraordinary was actually happening.