“Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.”

“Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.”

“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”

“There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science as they now do to burning at the stake in the name of religion.”

“We cannot stake our own fate on others, no matter how close our relationship with them.”

“Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.”

“The blackest Ink of Fate, sure, was my Lot,
And, when she writ my Name, she made a blot.”

“When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.”

“No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others.”

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”