What is the son but an extension of the father?

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.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

It would be nice if at least 1/3 of the people in Korea think that I'm modest.

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.