A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

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 art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

I don't get to shoot anybody. That kind of sucks.

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

One should mature over 20 years.

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.