Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

To be social is to be forgiving.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

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

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

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

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

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

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.