It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

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.

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens

And so beneath the weight lay IAnd suffered death, but could not die.

Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst kind of regret.

No one can move without some leadership.

The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

We're all a nation that believes we're children of the same god.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.