Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

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.

I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!

Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals

Like a yogi, bend your thoughts to change your life.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

I always liken it to being a referee - if you notice the referee, that's not a good thing.

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.