German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

Germany must remain Germany.

Angela Merkel and the CDU are not our political adversaries. The CDU and the CSU are sister parties.

The past cannot be allowed to repeat itself.

Even if we remain flexible, we need ground rules.

In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.

There are nice political formulations that can apply to everyone and to nobody. I wouldn't know how I could be more reserved in my formulations than I already am.

Every Saturday I read sentences in SPIEGEL that lack clarity.

Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

Bavaria is a dynamic, cosmopolitan state. Those who don't adapt fall behind.

The expectation is that party leaders solve problems. That's why substantial differences must first be cleared up.

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Account no man happy till he dies.

So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.