The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.