The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

You must realize that money is not good or evil

All human endeavors are the achievements of the little specks of jelly in your head.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.