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

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

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

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

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

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

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

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

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

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

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

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Men are like lions. We hunt.