The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

Nobody intends to put up a wall!

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

Nobody has the intention of building a wall

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

The realm of God is dangerous. You must enter into it and not just seek information about it

Calm is the best revenge

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.