"I enjoy what I'm able to give my family."

"I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP."

"My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene."

"If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change."

"Not everyone can be an orphan."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know."