It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

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.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

When you plan something that is unpragmatic, it proves that you do not have a lot of knowledge about your topic that you are mentioning to others.

In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it.

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Couldn't believe that out of 70K people, I was chosen.

Youve got to take advantage of those guys outside. Its frustrating.

Language is the archives of history.