The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

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.

If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean.

Happiness is the inevitable prize of repeated positive interpretations of one's experiences.

It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

God I bring each wounded child to Thee.

I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.