It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

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.

We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can.

They're mine

When you're way too real, fake people be like: "You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).

For a moment his eyes locked onto me with an intensity that left me breathless.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

Work honestly and build, build, build. That's all I can tell you.

••When I walk across my living room from my chimney to my window, it takes me 10 seconds, but for a bird it takes one second, and for oxygen zero seconds!

Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.