What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

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.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

Because when you finally find the one against all odds, you give him your best and let the magic of the world carry the rest.

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.

If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.

Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys...it's a Mafia thing.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.