Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

People are messy, unpredictable things.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.

We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.

I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.