Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

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.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.

If you want to hear God speak, read your Bible. If you want to hear God speak audibly, read your Bible out loud.

But when everyone tells you you're crazy and no one believes you when you swear you aren't, a small part of you will always wonder if they're right.