When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

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.

Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

I write from my point of view.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.