It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

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.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.

I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.

You want the scent? Smell yourself!

One word from you shall silence me forever.

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.