When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

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.

A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently

No one deserves to rent your heart, especially those who hurt you. Your heart is precious and deserves to store your great memories!

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...

Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.