The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

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 Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

Computers will be the death of us all.

...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.

I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.