Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

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.

I’m going to punch words in your ear holes.

The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

Stress is something that makes you feel you can't be yourself.

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.