Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

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.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos (Death) at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day.

He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, "Thank God.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

You should never risk your integrity or your soul for any amount of money.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

You learn to write by doing it.

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.