This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

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.

There is no perfect security only maximum temporary security

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

Praying Christians know nothing of their friends

One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable.

I started skateboarding when I was 12, and I broke my leg when I was 19 so... seven years.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.