People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

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.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock, every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.

Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

There are only two reasons that anybody does something for 50 years. You've got to believe in what you are doing and love the art form. I love harmony-tight, close harmony.

Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.

People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

Prayer is the supreme way to be workers together with God.