My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

Right or wrong. When you stand on a principle..you're never wrong.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

You don’t choose a life, dad. You live one.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

As we act in faith, we often find that the blessings from the Lord are different than we expected but much better than we imagined.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.