The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for 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.

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

They'll get my Kindle when they pry it from my cold dead hands, if my corpse will release it.

It's hard to let go of something you never really had but, even harder when you know it’s everything you ever wanted,

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

Gentlemen, start your engines!