Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.

Hitler was never a socialist.

For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

Everyone has a different bump card and when it's up, it's up.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.