The battle for self-control over an intense undesired habit consists of an endless series of skirmishes, in which our urges and our better angels clash several times each day.

Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe.

The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference.

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

I tended to do a lot of shows that were ahead of their time and didn't run very long.

I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.