Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

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 a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

Self-confidence and self-will are strength for sacred accomplishments.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.