Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go.

To truly accept a thing one must have no inner tension about it.

The only way to know the honesty of any person is to love them without desire.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

Hey Bieber, I had the initials JB first.. Where's my 15%?

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.