... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

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.

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

Be a gentleman farmer.

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.