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“As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.”
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“Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.”
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“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.”
Source : Address to National Press Club in Washington DC. Freedom and Union magazine, April 1952.
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“We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.”
Source : Speech at a conference of therapists in Basel, Switzerland, May 21, 1977.
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“I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.”
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“I don't like people that litter. If you don't throw a wrapper in the trashcan and you just toss it out on the ground I wanna take you and toss you into outer space.”
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“How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real...”
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“YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.”
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“I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.”
Source : Brother Lawrence (2005). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.46, Shambhala Publications
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“It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?”
Source : Joan Collins (2012). “The World According to Joan”, p.77, Hachette UK
