Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

The ones that love us never really leave us.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.