There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.
Shame is the root of all addictions.
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.
Guilt says I've done something wrong;. . . shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I've made a mistake;. . . shame says I am a mistake. Guilt says what did was not good;. . . shame says I am no good.
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.
The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.
[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.
I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.
There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
. . . these are the problems of the modern U. S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that delights in trying to knock us down. Which we have done nothing to deserve. Except, perhaps, love our country and everything it stands for.