“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”

“You can't eat books, sweetheart.”

“It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.”

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.”

“Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.”

“My advice is to get a good agent and a good tax accountant if you ever make any money, and remember, you can't eat fame. And you can't write unless you want to write, and you can't want to unless you feel like it.”

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”

“You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you”

“You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.”

“The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.”