Hatred is inveterate anger.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

All of our problems start in our minds.

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.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

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

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I have no human feelings.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.