"I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect." ― J. D. Salinger Topic(s): God More From J. D. Salinger "It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to." "I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." "Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell." More In God "God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done."― Stevie Wonder "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."― George Washington "Jews have God’s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree."― Karl Barth