One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.