I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.
Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.