I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

Leadership. Sees the future and knows the past.

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

When you don't have certain senses your other senses become heightened.

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.