What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

..., dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

Man's panic does not produce God's power.....sometimes you need to pray before you post on social media.

Past traumas are like old scars on tissue that never quite healed properly – they occasionally must be cut open, re-examined, and sutured anew.

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.