The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

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.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

Just my luck: My bloodthirsty killing machine was better with both kids and women than I was.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.