"If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read."

"But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine."

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."

"No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself."

"You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits."

"You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest."

"You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements."

"Chase your passion, not your pension."

"Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself."

"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece."

"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."

"Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience."

"You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective."

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well."

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."

"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes."

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

"One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project."

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."

"We are all star stuff."

"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy"

"Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing."

"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."

"You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals."

"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."

"Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."

"Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves."

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."

"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art / an individual masterpiece."

"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."

"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."

"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."

"Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."

"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy."

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."

"It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness."

"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."

"An organism at war with itself is doomed."

"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."

"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."

"If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."