Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

America is just downright mean.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

History should be written as philosophy.

Dissents speak to a future age.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

History is more or less bunk.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.