What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued...
I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that...
Jimmy Fallon's strengths are that he's fun, and he's good at impressions, and he's musically inclined. And my strength is that I'm a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that's not...
I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.
I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.
I feel there are two people inside of me - me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.
The truth is forced upon us very quickly by a foe.
Genuine love is ever constant, unchanging. There is no separation by degrees, levels, or kinds. There is no comparison or judgment since there is just one kind and it is inside everyone. Ego and the...
Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God - given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having...
You're only as strong as your biggest weakness.
Think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere
Life may become difficult when you are out of sync with your heart - felt desires.
The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
I honestly didn't realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it's true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.
Just because anyone can, doesn't mean everyone can.
Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a...
Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.
Knowing your power is what creates humility. Not knowing your power is what creates insecurity.
Nothing distracts one from one's true purpose in life more than following the crowd mentality.
Greatness is an opiate.
I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…
Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.
If you don't know how to deal with emotion, other people's feelings can hit you like a drug.
The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.
We came into this world with a blank slate. Our minds were clear, yet open to the most subtle impressions; our spirit knows our purpose, let these engrained impressions shape our perceptions.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...