It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

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.

JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me!GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.

All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.