"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."

"When I was a child, my mom told me: 'If you want to be a soldier, you'll become a general. If you want to be a monk, you'll become pope' I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso."

"Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions."

"Everything in your world is created by what you think."

"When you tell the truth, people listen."

"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information."

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

"As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate."

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."

"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives."