The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

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.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

I listen to the wind, the wind of my soul.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.