The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

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.

We have made Christianity too easy.

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

Playing well or playing bad, I have to play aggressive. I must play aggressive.

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.