Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

History provides no precise guidelines.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

In times of suffering, may God strengthen you.

In the stillness of headstones, Darkness is my blanket.And forever is my song.In the arms if stone angels, I'm not afraid.Because finally and completely, I belong.

God will sometimes test us in regard to what we value highly to make sure that we value Him most.

Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

Finance is a slave's word.

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.