I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

Religion doesn’t mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self.

Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).

People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more.

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot.

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.