I cry for those not yet dead.

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.

Mistakes and failures are valuable experiences. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom for the ultimate success.

Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?

For Death's life to be extinguished... now that was something to truly dread.

Our journeys are different but we can share the same well traveled path during parts of our excursion. Small victories win wars not single battles.

If I am lucky and find material that is interesting to me, I want to make it.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.