It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

It is right to give every man his due.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I personally have stopped flying. I have stopped eating meat and dairy.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

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.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

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

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

We moralize among ruins.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

People’s choice to become vegan, from people I’ve spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.