I have no human feelings.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

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

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

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 I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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.

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

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.