The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.
Success is a great healer.
I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.
Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.
Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.