Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.

The Son of God is the Saviour.

Such a distant, forgotten thing, this Light.

Though you may feel that you cannot improve the world, you can always improve yourself. In doing so, the world becomes a better place.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.