Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

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.

Life is singing with joy when you're smiling.

Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.

If you're in your 20s now, by the time you're 75, you'll be able to live 'til you're 150. By the time you're 150 you'll be able to live 'til you're 300. See you at your 1000th birthday party!

A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.