How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.