At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces.

the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day.

the real tests of life can come a child’s way at any moment,

String of fate brings two people together and it is love's job to keep them there.

Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.

The last time I actually drove a car myself was 1996.

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.