After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.

By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.

To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.

But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do.

I'm sorry to say it, but it was hard on me to see life continue all around.

The worst is, I remain so stone cold. Does this war make you an 'alive-dead person'? Is it not possible to remain yourself in this chaos? How long still?

The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage.

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.