All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

It's hard to get by just upon a smile.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

Money doesn't talk. It screams.

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

You gotsta love all God's children!

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.