Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.