“Four decades in which to live long and prosper.”

Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise.

I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.

Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness.

You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

You’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy.

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession.

They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.

Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation.

We learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul…

Loving someone has great benefits.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated.

Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous.

It normally takes decades to build a brand… It’s the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth.

Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern Comfort and cured with Kahlua and milk.

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations.

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.