Solve 90% of the problem as simply as you can, and then remove the other 10% from the problem requirements.

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.

We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

I… have an unnatural fondness for him, Duchess. One might even say that I love him. As a man should love a woman, really.” “Well, I would imagine the mechanics of that would be different.

Everybody's got their opinion on who they think you are or how strong or how weak you are, but at the end of the day all that matters is who you know you are, don't ever forget that.

The struggle to keep aroused emotions within proper boundaries is won by putting a conscious leash on them and leading them like junkyard dogs right to the throne of grace

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

There's so much that we're doing wrong today. And studies show we're one of three countries that doesn't invest more in disadvantaged communities.

There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.