There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

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.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

But this is africa, so hardly anything is normal.

I don’t know what it is that I’m doing, but I’m really enjoying myself. And I’m free to do it as much as I want.

What you subconsciously want, you will get. And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid.

Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.

Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.

I’d rather have my eyes gouged out. (Urian) If I do that, can the Simi eat them? (Simi) You have to share if you do! (Xirena)