Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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 is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

A song for you A song for me Is how we relate our life to be

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.