When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

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

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

Love is the one wild card.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Silence is safer than speech.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

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 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.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

I write all of my own speeches.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

I’m addicted to placebos.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

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.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Football is a sad game.