To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

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.

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.

Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.

Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls.

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

A small rock holds back a great wave.

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.