As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

Failure is a signpost on the trail to success

It is always wrong to enrich yourself at the expense of others.

Encouragement is a divine awaken of the soul.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.