To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

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 intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

It is not the success but the failures that glorify success.

Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.

Hillary Clinton was saying Bill Clinton has tendencies toward being sexist.

I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.