The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

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 a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Germany is using its Energiewende policy as a way of envisioning a green transformation and innovation across many sectors.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.