I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

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.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is meI believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to their lives.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.