There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD point out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it.

Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.

What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don't want the thorns of my roses. Haven't you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven't you ridiculed me as 'the prophet of bigger and better orgasms'? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young wife whose body has been desecrated by an impotent husband? Or the anguished cry of an adolescent bursting with unfulfilled love? Does your security still mean more to you than your patient? How long will you go on valuing your respectability above your medical mission? How long will you refuse to see that your pussyfooting procrastination is costing millions their lives?

It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...Only to find a big bear hug coming his way.

A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.