He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

I’m crepuscular.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

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.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Action is character.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

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

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.