Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

Freedom is a universal value.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

The necessity for co-operation between Europe and the United States is bigger than ever. Only by close transatlantic co-operation can we face the world's challenges.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.

Stay cool is the netiquette rule, if flamed. Responding is for a fool. NetworkEtiquette.net

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.