The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

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.

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will always kill me.

It is pointless to be called by God’s name and not have His respect

He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for thislittle adventure.No more.Good-bye, Aspen.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

God has joy for you right now.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.

My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.