Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.

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.

Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life.

I not only stand on my two feet, but I walk on my two feet for my two feet.

By learning to contact listen to and act on our intuition we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.

Buy health insurance, or go to jail.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

I will eat anything, at least once. For better or worse.

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.