It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

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 what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.