Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

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.

My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.

As I've evolved in life my writing process has taken a turn. I'm inspired by everyday life. I could be in the middle of something and hear a commercial. I enjoy songs writing themselves.

Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.