A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

What one fool can understand, another can.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.