We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.