However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

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.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.