The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Each day provides its own gifts.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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

I hid myself in food.

It is important to remember yourself.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a ‚Tomb Raider,‘ has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It’s like therapy.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

Never get out of bed before noon.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

What ‚multiculturalism‘ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.