May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

Nobody intends to put up a wall!

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

Nobody has the intention of building a wall

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

I find out in a relationship each person should support each other

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.

She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

...God's love is so real that He created you to prove it.