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.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.

You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance.

Solutions to mankind’s problems are easy and obvious. They remain unsolved because those who could solve them – don’t want to.

You don't need to change who you are to praise God.

I take your name whenever i give example of perfection...

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.