War is the most readily available form of chaos.

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.

Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

My grandpa taught me how to live off the land.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

Rapport equals trust plus comfort.