What you cannot control, you must accept.

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.

Even in your pains, troubles or difficulties, create unforgettable memories by putting a smile on the faces of others'.

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not “cure” partner abuse.

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.