Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

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

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

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.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.