Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

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 gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

If your master demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty.

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

Be sure to leave your underpants with someone you can trust.

Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.