Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

I really do work in solitude.

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.