What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Wit is educated insolence.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Enemies are so stimulating.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

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

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.