I'm a sailor, not a politician.

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.

Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment.

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

Vampires are always going to be sexy.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

I know the signs of scaredness.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'