We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I let the American people down.

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

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.