“If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.”

“Of course you don't know it, it is called learning, if you already knew it, it would be called review.”

“Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.”

“Do all your work as though you had a thousand years to live; and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow.”

“If you go through life without connecting to people, how much could you call that a life?”

“Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.”

“The Reform party is much closer to what you would call conservative Republican.”

“If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?”

“You must be ready to be called a ‘madman’ too, another name for genius in our generation.”

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”