We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.

Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

I took your name when I took those vowsI meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now.

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.