Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

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.

As far as I’m concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.

Happiness depends upon two things—pleasing God, and then pleasing yourself.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.