When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

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.

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

A champion's strength comes from never being contented.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”

I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new.

We should not say how's business, but where is business