Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

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.

What you see is what you see

May you find your path and travel on it.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

The light of morning decomposes everything.

I don't really care about having more fame than I have.

Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.