Every past is worth condemning.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.

Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.