Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

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.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

My mom made me think I was gorgeous. When I was younger she was like, 'Look at you! You're an angel. You sparkle!' And I was like, 'I do!' You believe your parents.

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.