All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

We could be happy if the air was as pure as beer.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice