Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the 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.

You ought to pray for a strong heart and then you can endure all things.

Your outcome is not necessarily decided by your income, but by your outlook. To improve your out look, look inwards.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be, ' there is only what is.

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

Female friendships are important because they help define us in a particular time and place.