Life in its highest state is understanding.

Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees.

The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.