Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

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.

You are nothing but what you think. That is existentialism.

Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

I don't take too many things too seriously.

Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when you have a personal relationship with someone.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.