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

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.

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.

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.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

Hero, ” said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. “Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let’s try not to annoy them.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

[Hillary] Clinton campaign says and we heard it at front, they tried to do that, they wanted to do that, they were blocked by James Comey.

Free will is an empty term.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.