There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State.

Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

You cannot protect something without intervening on some level.

Everyone learns in a crisis.

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

Showing strength is different than showing muscle.

Security matters should not be entrusted to people who make decisions without weighing things up.

I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

The world should be full of love. Love. Love is the most important thing in the world.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.