America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

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.

Fear is contagious. Fortunately, so is courage. Learning to become fearless will touch everyone around you, and best of all, you'll find it's a gift that keeps on giving.

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

Whereas, if you just say all right, let's try to bring in some recurring people, maybe that will alleviate some of the burdens on the budget moving forward.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

I think very few people in Canada are seeking - to regulate any public expressions of individuals' religions.

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

I feel so lucky that I've been on shows that have been by and large critically acclaimed and that audiences like it.

Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.