“You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.”

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.

The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

We get to choose how we’re going to live – what level of energy, what level of vibrancy, what level of excitement.

I’m choosing to build castle out of the things that nearly destroy me.

I rather fall in love over and over again and get hurt all over again than feeling dead inside.

Be proud, of the way you chose not to repeat that cycle again.

A tragedy is; I choose you. You choose me. Hearts choose safety.

Choose your battles one way or another. The world is overwhelming af already.

Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.