We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

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.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanation?

Humans are almost always lonely.

A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.