Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

Every fear is fear of death.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.