Grief is the price of victory.

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.

Every day is exciting when you don’t live your life based on religion alone

Anger is a certified destroyer, from its birth till now, it is yet to build a lasting legacy

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

The ends and means are a seamless web.

You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don’t deserve it.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.