It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

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.

All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...

They need a role model. They need a star!

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

If you think you know it all, you are not listening.

When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future.

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.