Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

Forgiveness is the joy of friendship.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.