Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

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.

A writer walks in nature to wonder.

The more I love, the more I find that life is magical.

The ribbon on my wrist says: Do not open before Christmas.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it.

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.