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

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

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

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

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

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

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

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

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.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.