Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

My parents have been with me every step of the way.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.