Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

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.

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

Ask youself: "Am I loving as deeply as I am capable of loving?"

You have to know what you want to get it.

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.