It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

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.

God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us

If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.