No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

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.

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.'She looked up from her book.'I would hope, though, ' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Every dream has a process and a price tag. Those who embrace the process and pay the price, live the dream. Those who don't, just dream.

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].

A light heart is a magnet for all that you love

I trust the universe to bring me everything I need at the right time context and order.