The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

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.

It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.

Having her favorite breakfast always made her feel cozy, like a warm blanket was being wrapped around her.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.

I'm American and I wanted my friend and people to see ' Red Army' . I didn't want it to be a film for Russia, although I did show it there and they absolutely loved it.

When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life