The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

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.

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

Repeating is harder than anything else.