Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Well, you can go on looking forward, " said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

I am going to name a group of my kids after my favorite cartoons, I am going to name them after Transformers.

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

I bend and do not break.

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.