Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.