A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.

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.

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.

Power is what is required to change the universe - to change yourself into what you might like to be.

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.