For sensitive human beings… a hole in the ego can be worse than a hole in the heart. – Norman Mailer, address at Hopwood Awards, University of Michigan, April 1984 #cr
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. – Edward Everett Hale
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door thats unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. – Alexis de Tocqueville
The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. Its something you dont see dramatized, but almost every minority I know whos my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. – Mindy Kaling
I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick. – Robert Powell
