Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

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.

This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.

The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.

God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.

I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.

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