A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Every past is worth condemning.

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.

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.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.

You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.