Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.

Growth is one of the most natural process of life

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.