I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

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.

If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.

Even if it's L.A. and it's warmer, we're not supposed to be revving up right now. I don't like everyone's energy around [winter] time of year.

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.

Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.