I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

The way to find your happiness joy is to make a list of all the things that are fun for YOU to do. Then do some of those things everyday.

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.

One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.

I was like: I'm going to ask her [Julia Roberts] out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.