Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

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

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

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

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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.

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

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

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

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

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

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.