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 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.

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.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Don’t put all of your focus on dating. Typically, if you’re involved in outside activities and causes that you are passionate about, chances are that you’re meeting people with similar interests.

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth.

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.

I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars. Now I don't know where we are Although I know we've drifted far!

He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.