“Most times, it s just a lot easier not to let the world know what s wrong.”
“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”
“...One thing you learn when you ve lived as long as I have-people aren t all good, and people aren t all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I m pleased to be in the light.”
“The idea that I can t share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”
“As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”
“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
“Most people don t believe something can happen until it already has. That s not stupidity or weakness, that s just human nature.”
“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
“You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.”
“And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”
“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
“Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.”
“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.”
“She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it wasn’t how she used to be.”