It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

We need to challenge our own thinking.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Aronson's first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

Just for tonight, let's pretend I'm not a priest and you're not crazy. We're just two normal human beings having a good time. Just a man and a woman at a rip-off carnival, living in the moment.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

I like having to figure out how to pull things off, how to sell it, how to make it look real, but not just real, make it look better.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.