The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Inside-out

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

That's how you know you've mastered a videogame—when a bunch of butt-hurt crybabies start to accuse you of cheating in an effort to cope with the beatdown they've just suffered at your hands.

I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first.

The weapon had a built-in timer that would prevent it from firing for another twelve hours (a "cooling-off period") (...).

There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

What is wisdom? What gift of the godsis held in glory like this:to hold your hand victoriousover the heads of those you hate?Glory is precious forever.

I have to remind Arsene about his team, which used to win the league, that was the dirtiest team in the league. If you cast your mind back to when they were winning the league, they had more seedings-off and bookings than anyone else.

I am a very impatient director.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it

Sometimes people behave in certain ways to provoke us to react in certain ways. If we stop reacting in these certain ways, we take all the fun out of it for them.