A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.