The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

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.

What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.

Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?

If you’re not working on the best idea right now, you’re wasting your time & money

These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.

... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.