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

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

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

Depression is the absence of hope.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.

Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

Only hard work, good principles, and a foundation of relationships that are built upon shared goals – not envy – gets you to the top.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.

Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I’m handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.