The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
By men's words we know them.
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would never think to say that one is cancer. But we say that one is depressed, or bipolar, or schizophrenic. A disease of the body is a condition. But a disease of the mind, we think, is a state of being. We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.
If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.