"Of all the diversions of life, there..." - Quote by David Viscott

“In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.”

“If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.”

“You are the only one who has to live your life.”

“I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.”

“When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.”

“When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.”

“At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.”

“Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.”

“Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.”