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.

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.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

Taking back our light from those we’ve projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

Fashion is what time looks like.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.