I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.

Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone

I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel it.

One must have a tough mind, and a soft heart.

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

Laws change. Conscience doesn't.

How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

God, you are my refuge into eternity

Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.

The sun still shines.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.