Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

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.

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

Lost luggage is just an opportunity to start afresh.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

I was divorced from Dr. Woodhull for reasons which to me were sufficient, but I was never his enemy.