How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

We become what we think about.

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.

Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? That is long ago. We are old folk.

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.