Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener.

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring–not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason...

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban’s enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban’s fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

*And to keep her immune system strong she followed Dr. Goodhue’s advice to abstain from alcohol, get plenty of fresh air and exercise, and consume a nourishing diet, low in salt. Page 144″Fear is good....

A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You’ll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom.” ~ “The Hole

Only learning oneself better, and understanding one’s place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.

I’m not here only just for a visit; but I’m here cuz’ i knew I’m HOME.

I don’t write to be understood; I write to understand.

In space you don’t stop.

What you are to me is the guy that I’ve been madly in love with since sixth grade. You’re the guy I think about every night when I’m in bed by myself. You’re the one...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won’t so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people...

May God guide you along the best pathway for your life.

A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a good supply of hand wipes in her bag.

That’s what I want, a mental evidence I can feel. I don’t want physical evidence, proof you have to go out and drag in. I want evidence that you can carry in your mind and...

Paddle Your Own CanoeVoyager upon life’s sea,To yourself be true,And whatever your lot may be,Paddle your own canoe.Never, though the winds may rave,Falter or look back;But upon the darkest waveLeave a shining track.Paddle your own...

He tried to be a good man, to do the right things, to make the world a little better than it had been before he had put his stamp upon it. You could be generous...

There ain’t half been some clever bastards

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

All businesses — no matter if they make dog food or software — don’t sell products, they sell solutions.

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same...

BAIT GOATThere is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will...

Life’s easy.It’s living it that’s difficult.

As a book author, it’s your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.

I hand over a lot of things when I’m home. Mom tells me she doesn’t like my shirt I want to buy, and I hand it over. Not the shirt itself, but my wish for...

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention...

The heaviest thing is an empty heart.

You Can Trust. Yes, but Try to remember even Demons had their wings.

Life is measured not by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Remember: In poetry, each word is like a loaded gun; very heavy, and full of intent

Why’d you want to sing about sad things?” Candy had asked him.”Because any fool can be happy,” he’d said to her.”It takes a man with real heart”—he’d made a fist and laid it against his...

I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and...

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed…It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith…the saddest people I’ve ever met...

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

inner eye” as such.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”.

A diamond is just a rock. A really expensive rock.

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman –a matter of millimetres.

You’ll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

I just hope the woman I invited over to dinner shares our insightful perspective.