“I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.”

“A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength.”

“Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.”

“We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the human wreckage scattered all about us, the terror and militarism prevailing in the country with the stereotyped belief that we were marching forward with great strides.”

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

“Blut muss fliessen”

“When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.”