How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

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.

Faith in God is a full force of grace.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Courage is the will to act in the face of any fear.

I am Captain Dakkan. I am in charge of this facility.""Captain Dakkan, " Ryan repeated. "It's good to meet you. I've heard... well... nothing about you...

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us, ' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do.

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

You fight and fight. Get every ball back, run every ball down and never, ever doubt.