The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

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.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

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

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

America is just downright mean.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Sin is geographical.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Be as you wish to seem.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

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.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

There are some loony people in this world!

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.