Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

I was never born, I didnt die.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

I suppose I like to give people something to talk and think about. I can just be the person that kind of put a message in the bottle to see where it ends up.

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

I prefer black music in general.

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.