Responsibility is the ability to respond.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.