Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

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.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Quality of life is more important than the quantity

I smiled sadly and whispered, "I would have taken a bullet for you, too, you know.""I know, " he whispered gruffly and lifted my chin, "and that pisses me off and turns me on at the same time.

Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it.

If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.