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

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.

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.

War is not a thing one wants.

Love is the source of great power and great strength.

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

Sometimes we punish ourselves the most.

Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

The more I work in fashion, the less I dress up. The first pair of jeans I made was for my own body-my "strange body," as I call it.

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

Go to the club or go to the block or go hang out and things start coming.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.