Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

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.

The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status

I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.

I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

As long as I've got the love of the fans, that means everything to me.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.