An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

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 dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

Do what's right, first. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.