I don't believe in doing things just to do them.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

Chocolate is what I love. I have it every day.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

Women hold all the power. They should use it like a whip, not offer it up like a sacrifice.

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.