motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

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.

The road to greatness is often sought, but if journeyed with kindness, it is sweetly paved.

Live. For Now. For the time being.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad.

The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live.

I like to wear sleeves because they cover up my arms.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

Shut up, I know what I'm doing!

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.