The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

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.

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

Don't get addicted to your requests. Your objective is needs, not requests. Because then it becomes a demand.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.