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

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.

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

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.

Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.

Your death rides a fast camel.

i'm social but there's a limit

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.