The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

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.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!

Doing the Right Thing - Sometimes doing the right thing, is to do nothing at all.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

What now? (Shahara) I’m thinking. (Syn) Could you think a little quicker? (Shahara) You’re not helping. (Syn) You’re lucky you’re still breathing and not limping. (Shahara)

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.