You can lead a happy life if you recognize that it's limited and completely unpredictable from one moment to the next.

It's understandable that Europe's Muslims are in a difficult situation, which is partly their own doing and partly not.

I suggested that countries with tighter finances think about such a [fuel] tax. We don't have the time at the moment for months of discussion.

The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

We are facing a whole collection of crisis-like developments that we have to watch closely. But we also have to be careful what we point to as crisis indicators.

A number of politicians, including those within your own party, believe Germans would be safer if the German military didn't insert itself into so many of the world's hot spots.

The significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high.