The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.

I took the plug out of the chemical bath of lust that my wits were soaking in and waited for it to empty. I smoked a cigarette while I contemplated the return of reason.

Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

It's often your deepest pain that brings out the best of out of you

The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Football is my life. I guess I can't live without it.

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

I try to meet people where they are.

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.