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It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

What's important is self-appreciation.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

I can intellectualize myself out of anything.

It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.