It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

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.

Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.

Roxanne Archer designed her strategy like a four-star general—or a stalker.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.