To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

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.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

May God give you the grace to do many good deeds.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Money should be mastered, not served.