The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

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.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

Define yourself or be defined.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.

What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

Cruelty towards animals and child abuse make me feel vulnerable. I wish there was more I could do. I try to spread positive messages through my social media.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.