Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.