Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

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.

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

I'm not much of a challenge here in the dark.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Your electric bills will go down.

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

If you don't make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven't you?