I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

Here's my rule about shoes, buy them.

It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

I would wear a turban to Whole Foods.

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

Accessories are everything. To me, they're more important than the clothes.

Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are.

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.

A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.

You can’t keep her.” I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.