A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

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.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.

It's hard to shake a stick at success.

Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.