Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer’s Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn’t live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you’d have to raise that to 20 million to mean anything.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

After all, one knows one’s weak points so well, that it’s rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

I am very hopeful that there will be significant political change. I would not like to put too definite a time frame with regard to political change.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a...

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of...

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don’t know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It’s what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World’s Indian population.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Neither Aristotle nor the Framers were known for self-indulgence. All believed that happiness is a legitimate goal in life; perhaps, one of the reasons we are here.

But look at Angola: The Chinese spent a lot of money to get in there, but they are among many other companies. It is a much bigger game.

I didn’t know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

It was an incredible resource. I’d sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the ‘Talk of the Town’ sections.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I’m going to turn on the lights.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

Live with passion!

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I’m optimistic that we can eventually arrive at...

There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can’t really generate a character that talks...

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

Ideally, I’d like to work part time at the bookstore. That would give me more time to contend with all the office work of writing.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

That’s the best thing about writing, when you’re in that zone, you’re porous, ready to absorb the solution.

Beware of men who cry. It’s true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their...

No man is a failure who enjoys life.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, ”What’s it for?”

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.