The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

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 knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.

We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.