The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

To put failure behind you, face up to it.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.