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.

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.

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

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

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.

It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.

Hatred is settled anger.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

I've been fortunate, I've been blessed, and I attribute my success to all my fans. People want to do things with you when you have a big fan base, and I have a great fan base.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.