It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

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.

A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.

I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before.

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.