Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there.….

God hides things by putting them near us..

The mind has a thousand eyes..

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work..

From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Change before you have to..

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all.

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing..

So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, ….

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary..

A word in season is most precious..

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives..

No matter what you do, if your heart is ever true, And his heart was true to Poll..

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood..

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the pr….

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains..