We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

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.

He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.

Skills or professionalism is another factor of growth

Tighten your prose so the story flows.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.