EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

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.

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Turn your fear around. The other side of it is strength.

Perception is subjective.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for home.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.