Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

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.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, ‘condemned to be free’. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

You don't know who's good or bad until you get to that crisis point.

People get God and religion confused. I think God is a bit too hip to join any of his unauthorized fan clubs.

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

Men often do things for women that they don't want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don't want to do.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.