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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

Are you being obedient, or just martyring yourself for another good cause?

The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience.

History provides no precise guidelines.

Sometimes you need a little courage too just to buck popular opinion.

Steven [Soderbergh] is so generous and when I sat down to meet him for "Logan Lucky" he answered so many questions about directing, so when I was on set I tried not to bug him too much.

We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.

You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.