In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

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.

There's a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain't everything because enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

I've decided to stick with love.

The only way to do it is to do it.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.