Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

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.

Did the Ancient Greeks ever write anything funny—like slapstick? I mean, I think I speak for everyone when I say that there’s nothing wrong with a little bit of well-written physical comedy.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.