What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

For success, optimism is more important than opportunity.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

I'd never even looked at a pair of skis. I didn't even realise the boots were separate. I thought it was one whole thing.

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...

Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

If I could've made Muhammad Ali smaller I would have fought him.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.