I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

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.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.