The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

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 running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.

Find my weak points, but more importantly, find yours.

Although a lot can be learned from adversity most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

Champions all get kicked when they're down.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.