I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

“My mind rebels at stagnation.”

“Nothing is little to a great mind.”

“To a great mind, nothing is little.”

“There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind”

“My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!”

“It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.”

“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.”

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”

“Nothing is more repugnant to the human mind in an age of equality than the idea of subjection to forms.”

“The faculties of the mind itself have never yet been distinguished and defined, with satisfactory precision, by all the efforts of the most acute and metaphysical philosophers. Sense, perception, judgment, desire, volition, memory, imagination, are found to be separated by such delicate shades and minute gradations that their boundaries have eluded the most subtle investigations, and remain a pregnant source of ingenious disquisition and controversy.”

“I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.”

“My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.”

“I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.”

“The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.”

“Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible. It is the call of nature, which requires to be relieved by some indulgence, sometimes of ease only, but sometimes too of dissipation and diversion. If it is not complied with, the consequences are”

“Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible.”

“Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things.”

“Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.”

“To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable.”

“In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon the same level, and the beggar who suns himself by the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.”

“Het is niet normaal om te weten wat we willen. Dat is een enorme en uitzonderlijke psychologische prestatie.”