I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

I was not a member of the SS.

The true lessons to be learned from Albert Speer are those that help us to recognize the Albert Speers living amongst us.

For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough.

For art to be art it has to cure.

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!