Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them are somewhere in between.

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to understand much about his fellow human beings.

Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is generally not concerned with that at all.

Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.