A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.
It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.
We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.
Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.
I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they’re complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better—to know that they can rise above that and make something great.
