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 is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.