There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.

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.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

ABYSSOur country livesAmong the deadAnd dies among the livingSometimes.

Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

We can't be fighting everybody at one time.

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.