It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

Cauldron save you.Mother hold you.Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey.Fear no evil.Feel no pain.Go, and enter eternity.

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.