I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

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.

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.

I'm fairly competitive.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

People's vocabulary has expanded.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.