It may be that [Erwin Rommel] believed it to be possible to convince [Adolf] Hitler to go away and to end the war, but Hitler never dreamed of doing something like that.

Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.

[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that [Adolf] Hitler has a gift of touching the important points, the essential points.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time

Make love to melike you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

Defense is the first act of war.

It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.