You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.
The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
The best way to know any future is to cause one.
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.
See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
Are you making life or is life making you?
The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.
A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office worker. They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine. They are the machine itself.
The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.
Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.
What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
The way out is the way through.
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