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

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

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

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

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.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

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

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.