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

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.

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

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.