There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

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.

The first thing I understand is pain.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

We and future generations should never forget them, Always remember them.

Snark is a fabulous defense mechanism.

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.

The surest method against scandal is live it down in well-doing.

Prices need to be fair, appropriate and consistent.

My yoke is easy, and my burden light.

Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.