All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

The world is too violent right now.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

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

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

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.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

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

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Acting is happy agony.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don’t dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

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

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.