Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.

I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist.

A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

e foundation to a good friendship is trust but the foundation to good comedy is by betraying your friends.

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

The very rich only admire themselves