There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

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.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.

To wear a floral shirt is an experience.

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

The curriculum of the future will be what one might call the humanistic curriculum.

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.