I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

Even if it's meaningless . . . sometimes, nice things happen.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

Nothing can be comparable to good health

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

Don't put down a deposit on worry.

I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lot of my stories also give birth to other stories.