Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

May you find a new grace to live your dreams in coming year.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner

Truly speaking -finding happiness is to do with being selfish, but that doesn't mean true selfish

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.