The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

When sinners accuse people, evil just did her job, accusing.

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take care of itself.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.