You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

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.

There is no "the secret", you are just too lazy.

If you change your way of thinking about failure, you can transform your weaknesses into strengths & realize opportunities for growth.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

Being a husband and a dad is my inspiration.

The things that hurt us teach us.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!