It’s no good to write a deliberate anti-drug song and hope that it will catch. Because the general thing is that people will be upset by that. It would disturb them to have someone else shoving something down their throat. So the best thing to do is offer something that seems ambiguous—that on study or on reflection actually can be seen to be “anti”—which the song “Cocaine” is actually an anti-cocaine song. If you study it or look at it with a little bit of thought … from a distance … or as it goes by … it just sounds like a song about cocaine. But actually, it is quite cleverly anti-cocaine.


Sarkozy said that being abandoned by his father shaped much of who he is today. He also has said that, in his early years, he felt inferior in relation to his wealthier and taller classmates. “What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood,” he said later.


A nightmare, also called a bad dream, is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety or great sadness. The dream may contain situations of discomfort, psychological or physical terror, or panic.


Classical tragedy is often based on a conflict arising from dual loyalty.


No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despite the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.


A friend is someone you love and who loves you, someone you respect and who respects you, someone whom you trust and who trusts you. A friend is honest and makes you want to be honest, too. A friend is loyal.


Although there are many forms of friendship, some of which may vary from place to place, certain characteristics are present in many types of such bonds. Such characteristics include affection; kindness, love, virtue, sympathy, empathy, honesty, altruism, loyalty, generosity, forgiveness, mutual understanding and compassion, enjoyment of each other’s company, trust, the ability to be oneself, express one’s feelings to others, and make mistakes without fear of judgment from the friend.


“Enemy” is a strong word, and “emotions associated with the enemy would include anger, hatred, frustration, envy, jealousy, fear, distrust, and possibly grudging respect.” As a political concept, an enemy is likely to be met with hate, violence, battle and war. The opposite of an enemy is a friend or ally.


Pride is an emotional state deriving positive affect from the perceived value of a person or thing with which the subject has an intimate connection.


Pride is a complex secondary emotion which requires the development of a sense of self and the mastery of relevant conceptual distinctions (e.g. that pride is distinct from happiness and joy) through language-based interaction with others.


Pride is the love of one’s own excellence.


Pride is the specific feeling through which egoism manifest.


Pride: a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.


Practice. Practice. Practice. There’s a reason they’re called “social skills” and not “social gifts.”


Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.


Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.


A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.


A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.


The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.


I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.


There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.


The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.


What does your conscience say? — ‘You should become the person you are’.


Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.


Tự kỷ ám thị đóng vai trò cầu nối giữa một bên là phần ý thức tạo ra tư duy và một bên là phần tiềm thức tạo ra hành động.


Because they’re doing things with their life. Think of what you wish to accomplish, then find someone who has done it in a way you respect.


Cowardice is a trait wherein excessive fear prevents an individual from taking a risk or facing danger. As a label, “cowardice” indicates a failure of character in the face of a challenge.