The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

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.

You become good at what you practise, basketball, anger or compassion, it is up to you!

We only betray ourselves.

Tread the path one has walked, before stoning them!

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.

You're 83? Really? You don't look it. I would've guessed 81 or 82.

Whether a project is large or small, it doesn't matter much to me as long as I feel I can serve the story as best as possible.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.