We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

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.

Trusting yourself means you dare walk alone.

Learn always and wherever possible, knowing that you'll never learneverything.

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

When you win your first Grammy, it's true, you really want to thank all the little people.