Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

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.

A man with a good story is practically a king.

If God came in and said "I want you to be happy for the rest of your life " what would you do?

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.