Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

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.

Something good about love: if you fall in it, you will not feel any pain.

I never forget a face but in your case I'll make an exception.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.

My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine

It don't cost money to ask.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

I used to steal pens at the store. Back in the day when you would write checks, I would write a check and use the pen, and I would keep the pen.