The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

Understanding how little we know is crucial to gaining knowledge.

The older the friendship, the stronger the trust.

Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?

There will come a time when people will realize the greatest mysteries of the universe: will a human then meet anything other than himself?

In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature.

Do not look for company at all costs, and especially do not allow loneliness to lead you to fickle love or false friendship.

Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.

The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.

Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.

Be patient in life, knowing that there is a real possibility that the desired outcome could happen without your direct involvement.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

I do belong on stage.

Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

Anybody that believes that Adrian Grenier's name is really Vince should probably watch less TV.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.