Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

Everything worth doing involves risk.

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

Wait until you see him up on a horse

Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead.Home.

Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth.

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

And the best way to quit being concerned with yourself is to be concerned about others.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!