Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

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 had been so long since she had felt anything.

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

There are only two kinds of people in this world, Mr. Sallinger: people who rise above that suffering and people who let it define them." (The Ables)

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.