Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.