Quotes About Respect

If you treat people as monuments you limit the capacity to teach. (on Armchair Expert podcast)

If you ever sit here, you will learn that you cannot, just by shouting from the housetops, get what you want all the time.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds

For men who have lived for a lifetime on a diet of contempt and disdain, the temptation to gain instant respect in this way can be worth far more than the cost of going to prison or even of dying.' And after

When you gaze into the eyes of another person you can only see as far as his closed door. So take it as an opportunity to knock on that door. If he doesn't want to open the door you bow to him and you say, That's fine. When you're ready.

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

The world can be divided between people who can get a waiter's attention and those who can't.

Sure, he's an ass, but remember, I have to live in their house. Anyway, that's how you treat people like that: Make 'em know how dumb they are, and they go away feeling a little less pleased with themselves.

I respect only those who stand up to me, but I find such people intolerable.

I admire your capacity for admiring.

Can you imagine going to bed with Kierkegaard? He'd never stop asking, 'Can I do this to you? Is this okay?

reverence, maybe

With his shyness and his formality and his tyrannical rages he protected his interior so ferociously that if you loved him, as she did, you learned that you could do him no greater kindness than to respect his privacy.

Sleepwalkers, leave other sleepwalkers alone!

All forms of poor communication have one thing in common: They ask the person on the other end of the line to do more work than they should have to.

Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.

only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

I decided then and there never to become someone who told jokes when explanations were impossible.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an animal.