Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

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.

Singing in a storm silences thunder’s threats.

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

...you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...

Last warning. I don't play nice.

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.