Charles M. Schulz Quotes

Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face.

I spent much of my life hiding.

I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.

I don't like being the center of attention.

I don't talk about the past.

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

I'm just not the type who wants to draw attention to himself.

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

I just don't like to talk about the past.

I spent 24 years in the closet wanting to talk so desperately about who I was and what I am but too afraid to.

I don't like to bring attention to myself. I don't like to make a scene.

I don't really like attention too much.

I'm not the type of guy who is going to be out in front of a microphone for attention.

I'm not into the attention thing so much.

I prefer to be out of the spotlight, to be honest. I've always been that kind of personality.

Okay, that really shouldn't have happened. And we’re not going to talk about that, right? Ever?” “Right,” she said. She felt like there was light dripping from her fingertips. Spilling out of her toes. She felt full of light, in fact, warm buttery sunlight. “Never happened.” He opened his mouth, then closed it, and closed his eyes. “Claire—” “I know.” “Lock the door,” he said.

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

I feel like people who don't brag are trying to make you jealous by thinking they're hiding something more even exciting.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

I was never one to seek out the spotlight.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.