We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.

Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.

We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.

I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

Even success needs its consolations.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

Wow, you survived a blackout. You're made of stronger stuff than ice cream.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach.

I hope everybody's getting smarter.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.