We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

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 no joy greater than the triumph of living.

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

You don't have the bug, so go do what makes you happy.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax.

I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.

What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?