If you've got a talent, protect it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
It's always too early to quit.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
I can, therefore I am.
Well done is better than well said.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.