A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

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.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me