Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Vanity is but the surface.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.