Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

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.

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

Form follows function straight to hell.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.