Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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 whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!

I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.

Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.

Boldness is a child of ignorance

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.