Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

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.

Art lovers ought to be crazy.That's how they see the fun side of everything.

The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs.

Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

No, I was just good at holding ice cream cones.

I don't deserve you. You know that, querida, don't you? (Alex)