We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

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.

There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain that only time and tears can expel.

When you're working, you have so many people working around you and being involved. It can get a bit overwhelming. I've just gotten used to it.

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21.

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.