Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

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.

Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots?

When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something.