The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

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.

I should never have expected loyalty from a Douglas, ” he spat out. He turned his back on her and went to the window.

Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.

Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

I'll always be there I'd give anything and everything And I will always care Through weekness and strength Happiness and sorrow For better or for worse I will love you With every beat of my heart.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.