When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

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.

My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps?

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

We're young men; we're not ready to die.

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.