The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

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.

Just like you can’t reap a harvest without planting seeds, so you can’t get without giving.

We are all capable of being great dreamers. We must awaken the divinity within us.

Our love douses us in flames. It's terrible and deep and wingless, but I'll burn here if you burn here too.

Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her.

If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)