Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

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

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

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.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

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.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

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.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

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

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.