All of us are much more human than otherwise.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.

If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces you are in the wrong business. It is work work the like of which I do not know.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

An enthusiasm about psychiatry is preposterous—it shows one just hasn’t grown up; but at the same time, for the psychiatrist to be indifferent toward his work is fatal.

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging.

Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.

I don't have a dark side as far as there is, like, murder in my past, but yeah, I think I'm a pretty nice, easygoing guy.

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

It's a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it's expensive. The Chinese and Vietnamese love their pork. Many Indians, especially the Muslims, can't live without their lamb.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.

I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

My dad died of a stroke.

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, 'I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.'

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

Mental toughness is not being affected by anything but what's going on in the game or competition no matter what coaches, other players, or refs are doing. It's being able to block out what's not important.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.