Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, “What is the point of being a superpower if you can’t do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?” The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alon

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

A Portuguese man who couldn’t sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things:

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.