A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.