I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.

It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?

Hitler is a dancing dervish. He must be shot down.

Bans are laws for the stupid.

Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims.

Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.

I'd spent so long trying to fit in, trying to be someone i wasn't, that i had no idea who i was any more.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

You may own a cat, but cannot govern one.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.