It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

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.

While you're here, work hard, work smart, and keep an open mind...

Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.

We JAH people can make it work.

Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.

I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.