Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

War is not a thing one wants.

Everyone wishes for a better life, and yet they want nothing to change.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

If the pulpit begins to propagate a faulty or erroneous value system, it ends up captivating the whole country, in no time like a cancer spreading throughout the body.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time

My theory of what makes people likeable stars is that they're likeable.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.