"You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you."

"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."

"You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."

"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world."

"Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are."

"There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave."

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."

"TM® is helping you tap into something that's already inside of you - that's you in essence."

"Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not."

"Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity."

"There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you."

"When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is."

"You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings."

"When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!"

"Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of."

"You can't become another person if you're not self-aware."

"Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance."

"Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own."

"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

"The big thing is that you know what you want."

"You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds."