Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequ….

I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel it..

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did..

One must have a tough mind, and a soft heart..

It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you.….

Laws change. Conscience doesn't..

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end..

I can't be overwhelmingly happy. I'm never free for a moment day and night from the uncertainty in which we live these days, which excludes any caref….

Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this seem possible. But isn'….

Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious pe….

How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sun….

Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought..

How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?.

The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunge….

I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to God for victory. And whene….

When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it. Every day before that an evening with you was wait….

It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up a steep slope, but I held the child in my….

The sun still shines..

I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help rejoicing a….

And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make ….