Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

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.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.