A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

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.

In a market, preceptions could be as important as reality.p.403

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.