What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.