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.

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.

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.

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

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.

The times they are a-changing.

I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!

see the things that you want as already yours

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

Through adversity we find our heroes.