Caution is the path to mediocrity.

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.

We both know dad was my parental trash can, the fatherly receptacle on whom I dumped my emotions.

Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

Number is the within of all things.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.