...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

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 you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral.

If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal

I would love to be a superhero.

The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

I am loved and accepted exactly how I am, right here and right now.

The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.