What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

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.

God is not interested in your ability. He isinterested in your availability. When you availyour ability to God, you become a faithful leader.

Is this how it goes? You fall in love, and nothing seems truly scary anymore, and life is one big possibility?

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.