The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.

The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith — and faith will triumph.

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

We have to start listening to nature now.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day.

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.