You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

My first win feels better than a draw!

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Hatred is self-punishment.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

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

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

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

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.