You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

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.

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone's fear is equal.

Game: The end.Addiction: It begins.

Most people are cowards.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.”

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.