Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

Your attitude of gratitude will bring you altitude in business and multitude in blessings.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource.

I think that America is more diverse than ever before, and is continuing to become more diverse, and our content should and is reflecting that.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.