You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.