Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

If it hurts, DON'T DO IT AGAIN.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

There was no one left to speak for me.

What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.

Don't let your life wait for other people.

If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.