Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.

Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.

The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.

The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

I am a monster because I have too much of something.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

If a girl is pretty she will be tempted.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.