Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.

If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.

One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do

What you think again and again becomes your truth. Think right.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

I don't talk soft, that's that other guy.

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.