It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

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.

I write, like anybody else, about how it is to be human." -- Mark Merlis

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Autumn is the bite of a harvest apple.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel.

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind.