To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

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.

Setting the remains of a freshly erupted volcano, I walk.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Hope does not disappoint.

Love without limits; reverse the hate.

This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

I can’t think. I can’t work or sleep. My body aches for you. I can make you want me again. Let me try.

I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised.