I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

Making a woman fall for a man is a natural talent. You can practice it but you can’t master it. Practice does not make you expert, but dampens your spirits every time you fail.

Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.

You never find riches on a well trodden path.

I thought I lost something this summer, but I just realized, I never needed it.

Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

Of course he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.