Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

I never talk about my next project.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

There are some loony people in this world!

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

I’m crepuscular.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

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

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?