Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

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.

Do what is right. Not what you like.

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain, " one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

I've always been brought up to stand on my own two feet and not rely too heavily on everyone else around me.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I just lost a buttonhole.