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.

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

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

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.

Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this…

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

Make life as a lifelong love affair with yourself.

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

I never went to sleep thinking and dreaming that I wanted to be an actor. It just kind of fell on my lap and I said, "Okay, maybe I can do this? Lets see.".

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

Your systems are perfectly designed to get the results that you are getting.

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.