Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

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.

The boldness of being is to believe in God.

May you find the strength to chase your dreams

I've realized that, sometimes, you have to let people go. But I'm really glad I have someone to hold on to.

Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

I like to take risks as long as they're healthy, you know. They're good, smart risks.

Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

I'm wondering what to read next.