You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

Kindness comes with no price.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.

Just think of it as a picnic with guns and monsters instead of mosquitoes and ants. Do we have fun or what?

You've got to know what your magic is. How else will you fully share your gifts with others and enrich the world for these precious years that you live?

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.