There is no alienation that a little power will not 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.

When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.

Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.

The weather in England can really darken your spirits.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan

The devil was the first democrat

We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.