The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

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.

Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself

The stony silence of death, trapped by the original gravity of our sins, and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn, a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

I got a safe full of cherries 'cause I pop it and lock it.

If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

He lives well who lives retired, and keeps His wants within the limits of his means.

A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.

I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out.

Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up