Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone.

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.

It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

Dust is a provocative coating for fine furniture.

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.

I feel lucky, though, because even when 'Alias' was popular, I was still sent scripts against type. I've never felt like the world only sees me one way. But yes, it's been really fun to be bad.

At the end of the day, I'm an actor. I'm not here to sell other stuff or use off-screen things to generate whether or not I work. If I'm any good, I'll work; if I'm not, I won't.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for nine pence, in the gods.

They say that your second trimester is when you get most of your energy and it's the 'easiest' part of the pregnancy.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.

Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.