The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

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.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

I watch a spider outside my window, how she carefully weaves a dreamcatcher in the corner. Just for me.

O Lord lead me along a sacred straight path.

I am trying to sell beauty.Worst that you can do to me is not buy it!

It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good.All who dream life, instead of living it, require some similar shock.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

All critics should be assassinated.

I don't have a college degree.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself