Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

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.

No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

I knew dating the son of Satan would turn out badly

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

I think all Geminis are kids at heart. And that's why they're able to simplify some of the most complex things and connect with people. It's having that kid spirit.

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.