The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

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.

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours, and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.