It’s your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

It’s better to bite your tongue than to eat your words.

There’s more to life than increasing its speed.

People stop trying when there’s no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.

What counts that we’re not counting?

You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren’t supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

Many people are actually poor because the only thing they have is money.

A positive mental attitude can improve your health, enhance your relationships, increase your chances of success, and add years to your life.

To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books...

Or that other bullshit, 'I need more space.' People never quantify exactly how much space they need, but strangely enough it always seems to be the exact same height, depth, and breadth as you.

Harry Potter set Dobby free!" "Least I could do, Dobby", said Harry, grinning. "Just promise never to try and save my life again.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

My bugs don't have bugs.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.

In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don't like to do.

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.