The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

Am I falling in love? She thought, is it safe to do so with this man? She thought, I don't need to answer.

The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

It’s always summer somewhere.

I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.