Quotes about Insecurity

just when you felt on top of the world in the Trump administration, you could probably count on getting cut down. That was the pattern and price of one-man leadership—insecure-man leadership.

Trump saw the world through the filter of other people's weaknesses.

Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

The kick in the teeth with fame is, when you don't have it, you beat yourself up for it because you don't have it, but when you have it, you are miserable and kill yourself for it.

If you keep people down so they dont become better than you, you gotta stay there to keep them down so you dont progress yourself. What kind of wahala (Suffering) is that ? Leave them to progress so you can expand.

My work means that we have lived in different parts of the world and in each there has always been something to be afraid of. Gangsters, extremist political groups Right and Left tossing bombs into restaurants, hijacks, holdups, a city plumb on the line of an earthquake fault. We have long had a compact, with ourselves, with life; life is dangerous. We live with that; in the one certainty that fear is the real killer.

But I know that writing on bags is something people do only out of anxiety and uncertainty. Neither defeat nor the greatest success is conducive to writing.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Envy is universal because sin is.

The smart kid teases the dumb kid. The athlete makes fun of the kid with two left feet. Something is so wrong inside us that we can't even handle blessing properly.

Guilt will paralyze your confidence in your own prayers

When knowing what you believe is the nonnegotiable center of true faith, questions and critical self-examination pose a threat.