There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

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.

Think before you do! Don’t ever be in haste to make a mistake, for that can be a big mistake! Think before you do!

In real friendship the judgment the genius the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.