I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.