The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

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.

The Church should be more concerned about the hearts of the lost rather than the comforts of the saved.

The truth is, life grows and evolved inside of you and, it has nothing to do with any other person except you. The truth of life grows and evolves, in the form of understanding.

He put his forehead against hers. “Alannah, my heart is yours.” He said softly.“And yet, I must hand it over to someone else for the keeping.” Her last words falling to a strained whisper.

The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!

To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who has been smoking the night before.

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.