In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.

The Lord is concerned about the poor receiving justice and that they are not neglected or cheated.

Where love is, there God is also.

A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.