Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

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

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.