#Insight

"Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside."

"My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him."

"You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil."

"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

"Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk."

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

"Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from 'high up', to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outsidethe box and to look at life’s patterns from this high perspective is the inspiration behind the slang term “high” itself."

"Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented."

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."

"Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still."

"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."

"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding."

"Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance."

"If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others."

"Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding..."