Clifford Cohen

“Just because you say you will do something does not mean that you are also willing to do that thing. Ensuring that both things are true is especially important in the matter of either making or receiving a proposal of marriage.”

“Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.”

“Why do the powerful always insist on having a “back story” to justify whatever they do? Why can’t they—just once—do something for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do, in itself, for reasons understood and accepted by all? In politics, laws are passed to secretly serve hidden agendas, for without such agendas many lawmakers would never find the motivation to support anything at all.”

“There’s no arguing with a song that writes itself.”

“Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.”

“Eating healthy is not so much about what you eat, but what you don’t eat.”

“We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.”

“You have to know you don’t know before you can know.”

“A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.”

“All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.”

“My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.”

“Rare is not synonymous with valuable.”

“Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.”

“Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.”

“Sex can be the result of love, but never the cause of it.”

“Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.”

“You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something.”

“Be careful not to think that just because you know what a person is going to say, you know what that person is going to do.Be careful not to think that just because you know what a person is going to do to others, you know what that person is going to do (or not do) to you.”

“Chronic problems tend to come from chronic habits.”

“The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.”