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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.