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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile.

I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.