Daniel Ford

“Visser ’t Hooft also had unorthodox requests of his young volunteer aide, like calling upon Audrey to deliver the local Resistance newspaper, Oranjekrant. With paper pulp in extremely short supply, the Oranjekrant packed its volume of critical information into a surface area about the size of half a paper napkin. Audrey described having “to step in and deliver our tiny underground newspaper. I stuffed them in my woolen socks in my wooden shoes, got on my bike and delivered them.”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“Ciano also heard hints “of the Fuehrer’s tender feelings for a beautiful girl. She is twenty years old, with beautiful quiet eyes, regular features and a magnificent body. Her name is Sigrid von Lappus. They see each other frequently and intimately.” (The Ciano Diaries, p. 85.)”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“Because of the continuity of its tone”
― Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography

“After hearing a shipboard sermon, a dose of the old-time religion, he trained his critical faculties on Christianity and mocked the notion of Christ sacrificing His life for humanity. “If Christ was God, then the crucifixion is without dignity. It is merely ridiculous, for to endure several hours’ pain is nothing heroic in God, in any case.”[106] He pointed out that “every girl takes a risk superior to that when she marries & subjects herself to the probable pains of childbirth indefinitely repeated.”[107]”
― Ron Chernow, Mark Twain