“You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

“Most of us, in our civilized society, rely too heavily on reasoning capacity to make things happen. We've been raised to believe that logic will prevail. Logic, in and of itself, will rarely influence people. Most often logic doesn't work.”

“No' is a reaction, not a position. The people who react negatively to your proposal simply need time to evaluate it and adjust their thinking. With the passage of sufficient time and repeated efforts on your part, almost every 'no' can be transformed into a 'maybe' and eventually a 'yes'.”

“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.”

“Of all the components of the ecosystem, humans are the only ones we know to be completely optional.”

“The only tatics I admire are do-or-die”

“One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”