The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.

My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume.

The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

I am an emotional person, and soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind.

The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car.

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

You need to be happy with who you are and, whoever that is, let your little light shine.

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.