Siegfried Lenz's Quotes

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.

Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.

There's a mobile app for almost anything you may want to do, any situation you confront.

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.