"I love being a mom. That's the best job I've ever had. All the other stuff I love the same, but being a mom trumps all of it."

“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”

Source : Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

“It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.”

“I love a natural look in pictures.”

“So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.”

“Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.”

Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

“Politics are not my arena. Music is.”

“The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart....”

“We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.”