Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.