To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

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 creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.

Love is beautiful even if they are in movies and books.

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.

Racism is a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.