We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

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.

You feel most fulfilled when your actions are filled with meaning. Find meaning to find yourself.

We hold hands together delicately and sublimely and look longingly into each other’s eyes.

Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you'd expect.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

Excuses excuse us from fulfilling our potential.

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance.