“Then throughout the day, mankind played with grenades...Cold hearted world!”

“A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm”

“The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence, --- not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in the long run, the actions of mankind.”

“Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.”

“I wonder" he wrote, "if the day will ever come that the loveliest of hymns, Silent Night, will come into the minds of the people throughout the world to express the German heart. I belive it is the expression of the heart of many Germans...[and]of most people throughout the world. That is the appalling tragedy of all that we witness today" Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in his diary during WWII during German occupation of the Netherlands.”

“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.”