We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

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.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.

It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world

The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.

Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.

When you need money, it is a powerful feeling within you, and so of course through the law of attraction you will continue to attract needing money.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!