A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

I’m crepuscular.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

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.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

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

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

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.

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I’m very much a creature of habit.