“We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.”

Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.

A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. Aristocracy with the meaning – the best are ruling. Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people’s sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don’t want to be recognized.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead. The past lies in flames.

The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Elizabeth Taylor’s so fat she puts mayonnaise on aspirin.

It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

I’m no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, ‘Why didn’t I go to bed at 11?’ I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.