Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

Oppression is the essence of power.

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

Music gives infinite strength.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

Three can hold their peace, if two be away.

Life's not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit.

Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.

The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.