In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.