A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

If you are lost, I will find you. If you are in danger, I will protect you, " he said seriously. "It's what a gentleman does, Elysse."~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neil

I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye.

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.