Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

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.

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Love and kindness are most precious where there is endless suffering.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've ever surfed in turds and medical waste you don't want to repeat the experience.